![]() ![]() Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa died in Rome in 1957 at the age of 60. He completed Il Gattopardo in 1956, but it was rejected by the first two publishers he submitted it to. Giuseppe inherited his father’s title in 1934 and eventually settled down to write his novel. He was held in a prisoner of war camp for a while in Hungary but eventually managed to escape and return to Italy. ![]() He fought in the battle of Caporetto and was taken prisoner by The Austro-Hungarian army. The novel, which is set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento, won the Strega prize in 1959 for him posthumously.Īfter starting to study jurisprudence at university in Rome he was drafted into the army in 1915. He became the last Prince of Lampedusa after the death of his father and his only novel, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), was published in 1958 after his death, soon becoming recognised as a great work of Italian literature. The Sicilian writer, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was born on this day in 1896 in Palermo in Sicily. Sicilian prince whose novel achieved recognition after his death ![]()
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