Arts & Letters
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, 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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