Home life of a predator – scenes from the Leopard’s lair Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – A Biography Through Images Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, Alma Books, Richmond (Surrey), 2013, 125 pp, £25 It must be at times frustrating to be a considerable academic and author in one’s own right, yet to be known chiefly because of… Continue reading
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The Last Leopard – change and permanence in a haunted landscape
The Last Leopard – change and permanence in a haunted landscape The Last Leopard– A Life of Giovanni Tomasi di Lampedusa David Gilmour, Eland, London, 2007, pb, 27pps, £12.99 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957) was the last hereditary Prince of Lampedusa, a barren, seven-mile long island situated between Malta and the African coast but belonging… Continue reading