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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: A Biography Through Images
An illustrated biograpy with a wealth of unpublished pictures, written by Lampedusa's cousin and heir
With a wealth of photographs from Lampedusa's private albums and documents from his family archive, this visual biography explores all the people and places that were dear to the great Sicilian master and are essential for a fuller understanding of his work. Perhaps in no other novel of the 20th century has the sense of time and place had such a central role and profound significance as in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's masterpiece The Leopard, a work which captures Sicilian traditional society in a period of transition when faced with modernity and political upheaval.
With a wealth of photographs from Lampedusa's private albums and documents from his family archive, this visual biography explores all the people and places that were dear to the great Sicilian master and are essential for a fuller understanding of his work. Perhaps in no other novel of the 20th century has the sense of time and place had such a central role and profound significance as in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's masterpiece The Leopard, a work which captures Sicilian traditional society in a period of transition when faced with modernity and political upheaval.
- GenresItaly
256 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1998
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