Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa and Duke of Palma, had two more titles than anyone needs, and, for the first 58 years of his life, too much time—numbingly vast stretches of largely ...

The final, haunting image that Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa conjures in his magnificent, enchanting novel "The Leopard" is of a decomposing stuffed dog being tossed out the window of the Villa Salina, ...

THE town of Palma di Montechiaro in southern Sicily seems an unlikely place to find on the main coast road. The motorist may go straight down its main street and never give its dusty length more than ...

You say you want a revolution? I am often drawn to a novel by the story behind the story: Proust writing night after night in a cork-lined room like a literary Dracula; Henry Roth chipping away at ...

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Twilley. New York Review Books, $12.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-59017-719-8 The reputation of Sicilian writer Lampedusa rests ...

Netflix‘s Italian drama The Leopard, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s classic novel, has gone into production and unveiled its cast. Deva Cassel — daughter of Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci ...

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This episode of the Great Writers series focuses on Italian author Giuseppe Di Lampedusa Born into wealth this multifaceted Sicilian prince was also an astronomer and served in the armed forces ...

Editor’s note: We asked Tribune writers to reflect on a piece of the larger cultural puzzle (a popular TV show, a movie, a book, etc.) they were missing — until now. The book sat in the bookcase for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘One of the great books of always’: Deva Cassell as Angelica in the new adaptation of The Leopard - Lucia Iuorio/Netflix He was ...