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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

1896 - 1957

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Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE (23 December 1896 – 23 July 1957), known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe toˈmaːzi di lampeˈduːza]), was a Sicilian writer, nobleman, and Prince of Lampedusa. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958), which is set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento. A taciturn, solitary, shy, and somewhat misanthropic aristocrat, he opened up only with a few close friends, and spent a great deal of his time reading and meditating. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa is the 355th most popular writer (up from 579th in 2019), the 518th most popular biography from Italy (up from 714th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Italian Writer.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa is most famous for his novel The Leopard, which is about a Sicilian aristocrat in the 1800s.

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Among writers, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 355 out of 7,302. Before him are Simonides of Ceos, Marguerite Duras, Peter Drucker, Roald Dahl, Luqman, and Giorgos Seferis. After him are O. Henry, John Keats, Jane Hawking, Zosimus, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, and Pierre Beaumarchais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 13. Before him are Imre Nagy, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Antonin Artaud, and Gerty Cori. After him are Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert S. Mulliken, Klement Gottwald, Trygve Lie, Andrei Zhdanov, and Paula Hitler. Among people deceased in 1957, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 14. Before him are Humphrey Bogart, Johannes Stark, Nikos Kazantzakis, Constantin Brâncuși, Walther Bothe, and Gerty Cori. After him are Arturo Toscanini, Wilhelm Reich, Gichin Funakoshi, Oliver Hardy, Heinrich Otto Wieland, and Henry van de Velde.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 518 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Hilarius (415), Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (1666), Antonio Meucci (1808), Totila (500), Pope Stephen VIII (900), and Lucky Luciano (1897). After him are Zeuxis (-500), Octavia the Younger (-69), Pope Valentine (780), Gaius Maecenas (-68), Arturo Toscanini (1867), and Pope Miltiades (250).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 28. Before him are Sallust (-86), Ludovico Ariosto (1474), Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), Luigi Pirandello (1867), Alberto Moravia (1907), and Christine de Pizan (1365). After him are Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863), Theocritus (-315), Lorenzo Valla (1407), Cornelius Nepos (-100), Elena Ferrante (1943), and Giosuè Carducci (1835).

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