The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - David Gilmour

Title: The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Author: David Gilmour
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: First American Edition, 1991
ISBN: 0679401830
Condition: Very good. Light shelf wear and rubbing to the dust jacket with minor edge wear. Binding remains sound. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

David Gilmour’s acclaimed biography of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the Sicilian aristocrat and author of The Leopard, traces the life, family background and social world that shaped one of the great novels of twentieth-century European literature.

Drawing together literary biography, Sicilian history and the decline of the European aristocracy, The Last Leopard will appeal to readers of Italian literature, literary history and biography, particularly admirers of Lampedusa’s celebrated novel.