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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Born

in Palermo, Sicily, Italy

December 23, 1896

Died

July 23, 1957

Website

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Genre

Fiction, Memoir

Influences

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Tomasi was born in Palermo to Giulio Maria Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa and Duke of Palma di Montechiaro, and Beatrice Mastrogiovanni Tasca Filangieri di Cutò. He became an only child after the death (from diphtheria) of his sister. He was very close to his mother, a strong personality who influenced him a great deal, especially because his father was rather cold and detached. As a child he studied in their grand house in Palermo with a tutor (including the subjects of literature and English), with his mother (who taught him French), and with a grandmother who read him the novels of Emilio Salgari. In the little theater of the house in Santa Margherita di Belice, where he spent long vacations, he first saw a performance of Shakespeare's Haml ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 39,519 ratings · 3,312 reviews · 52 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Leopard 4.01 avg rating — 37,478 ratings — published 1958 — 462 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Professor and the Siren by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Stephen Twilley (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 1,178 ratings — published 1957 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Places of My Infancy: A Memory 3.66 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Stories and a Memory by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, E.M. Forster (Introduction) 3.76 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1962 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters from London and Europe (1925-30) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, J.G. Nichols (Translator), Antonio Carluccio (Foreword) 3.36 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Byron 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jutustused (Loomingu Raamatukogu. #3-4/2017 by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Heete Sahkai (Translator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Relatos 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notas sobre literatura Inglesa by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Paz Balmaceda (Prologue), Pedro Gandolfo (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , The Leopard

tags: change

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“Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

tags: ashes, flames, love

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“Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a crederci il sale della terra."

("We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.")”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

tags: gattopardi, grandeur, illusions, importance, italy, leopard, self-centeredness, self-image, self-perception, sicily

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May 2015 New School Classics Poll

Which book would you choose for our May New School group read?

1957, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages

8 votes, 21.1%

1934, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 322 pages

5 votes, 13.2%

1928, Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

5 votes, 13.2%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

4 votes, 10.5%

1915, The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, 417 pages

4 votes, 10.5%

1994, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 607 pages

4 votes, 10.5%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages

3 votes, 7.9%

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

3 votes, 7.9%

1945, The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, 401 pages

2 votes, 5.3%

38 total votes

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