Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (December 23, 1896 – July 23, 1957) was an Italian writer. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958, translated as The Leopard), which is set in Sicily during the Risorgimento. A taciturn and solitary man, he passed a great deal of his time reading and meditating, and used to say of himself, "I was a boy who liked solitude, who preferred the company of things to that of people."
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“If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.”
—Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896–1957)
“John Brown and Giuseppe Garibaldi were contemporaries not solely in the matter of time; their endeavors as liberators link their names where other likeness is absent; and the peaks of their careers were reached almost simultaneously: the Harper’s Ferry Raid occurred in 1859, the raid on Sicily in the following year. Both events, however differing in character, were equally quixotic.”
—John Cournos (1881–1956)
“If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.”
—Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896–1957)
“If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.”
—Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896–1957)