Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was a Sicilian nobleman, Duke of Parma and Prince of Lampedusa. He was born in Palermo in 1896 and died in Rome in 1957. He lived the life of a literary dilettante, was familiar with the great literatures of the world, and was widely travelled. Much of Lampedusa's other work is collected in The Siren and Other Writings.
Books by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
If you want everything to stay the same, things will have to change - The Leopard
This is the new, revised edition which includes recently discovered new material including letters and diary entries by the author and two additional sections of the novel