Giuseppe Di Lampedusa was born in Sicily in 1896 and died in 1957. The Leopard was his only novel.
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Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and ... SEE MORE