Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Daniela Shalom Vagata (Masaryk University)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 23 Dec 1896
Died 23 Jul 1957
Activity 1926-1957

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

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Novelist

Resources

Much of what can be highlighted in a first encounter with Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the internationally renowned writer of Il Gattopardo [The Leopard], is the impact of the aristocratic world on his oeuvre. Direct experiences, vital memories and countless anecdotes are filtered through the writer’s imagination and distilled into his writing. Even so, Francesco Orlando -- who at the age of twenty benefited from Tomasi di Lampedusa’s lessons on French and English literature, attended the reading of Il Gattopardo during its writing process and typed out part of the book under the writer’s dictation -- warns that a strict correspondence between the author’s life and work should not be …

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Citation: Vagata, Daniela Shalom. "Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 November 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2602, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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