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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

1896 - 1957

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Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE (23 December 1896 – 23 July 1957), known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe toˈmaːzi di lampeˈduːza]), was an Italian writer, nobleman, and Prince of Lampedusa. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958), which is set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa has received more than 364,430 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa is the 495th most popular writer (up from 541st in 2019), the 617th most popular biography from Italy (up from 637th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Italian Writer.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa is most famous for his novel The Leopard, which is about a Sicilian aristocrat in the 1800s.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 66.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 495 out of 5,755. Before him are Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Robert Burns, Kurt Vonnegut, Milena Jesenská, Robert Walser, and Charles, Duke of Orléans. After him are John le Carré, Nadine Gordimer, Beatrix Potter, Francesca da Rimini, Jean Paul, and Al-Maʿarri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 21. Before him are Andrei Zhdanov, Paula Hitler, Gerty Cori, Oswald Mosley, Felix Steiner, and Milena Jesenská. After him are Dziga Vertov, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Donald Winnicott, Ernst Udet, Howard Hawks, and Célestin Freinet. Among people deceased in 1957, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 20. Before him are Constantin Brâncuși, Johannes Stark, Henry van de Velde, Walther Bothe, Gerty Cori, and Gabriela Mistral. After him are Irving Langmuir, Alfred Döblin, Joseph McCarthy, Curzio Malaparte, František Kupka, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 617 out of 4,668. Before him are Maria Luisa of Savoy (1688), Leonardo Bruni (1370), Constance, Queen of Sicily (1154), Publius Cornelius Scipio (-260), Giulio Andreotti (1919), and Paolo Maldini (1968). After him are Pierluigi Collina (1960), Francesca da Rimini (1259), Pope John II (470), Gaius Caesar (-20), Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (1810), and Gian Galeazzo Sforza (1469).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 41. Before him are Elena Ferrante (1943), Ennius (-239), Livius Andronicus (-280), Grazia Deledda (1871), Statius (40), and Baldassare Castiglione (1478). After him are Francesca da Rimini (1259), Fausto Cercignani (1941), Giacomo Leopardi (1798), Cassiodorus (487), Aulus Gellius (123), and Theocritus (-315).

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