Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: A Biography Through Images - Hardcover

Lanza Tomasi, Gioacchino

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846882125 ISBN 13: 9781846882128

Publisher: Alma Books, 2014

Synopsis

An illustrated biograpy with a wealth of unpublished pictures, written by Lampedusa's cousin and heir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.

About this title

About the Author:

Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi is a professor of music history at the University of Palermo. He is the author of Palaces of Sicily as well as several books on opera and major composers such as Rossini, Stravinsky, Berg, and Mussorgsky. The adopted son of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, he is the Italian editor of Lampedusa's works and executor of his estate. David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Tomasi di Lampedusa.

Review:

"With a wealth of photographs,Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa provides a unique insight into the people and places that inspired the author of The Leopard, a realistic sense of a time and a place gone by."  –SirReadaLot.org

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1846882125
• ISBN 13: 9781846882128
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256