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Who wrote The Leopard, the novel of Sicily's fading nobility?

  • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  • Italo Calvino
  • Umberto Eco

The answer is Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Lampedusa — published after his death.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE, known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was a Sicilian writer, as well as the last generation of Tomasi Princes of Lampedusa before the family's and their titles' extinction.

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