WRITER

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 a Sicilian 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 389,083 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa is the 580th most popular writer (down from 494th in 2019), the 714th most popular biography from Italy (down from 615th in 2019) and the 51st 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

  • 390k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The leopard
Italian fiction
19584 / 5
Le Guépard
1959
Le professeur et la sirène
1972
Racconti
1962
I racconti ..
1972
Opere
1965

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 580 out of 7,302. Before him are Denis of Portugal, Sayat-Nova, James Baldwin, Ninon de l'Enclos, Władysław Reymont, and Cassiodorus. After him are Osip Mandelstam, Enid Blyton, Abai Qunanbaiuly, Samuel Butler, Allen Ginsberg, and Su Shi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 25. Before him are Felix Steiner, Dziga Vertov, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Eugenio Montale, Oswald Mosley, and Donald Winnicott. After him are Buenaventura Durruti, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Italo Balbo, Ernst Udet, Anna Anderson, and Erich Koch. Among people deceased in 1957, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 24. Before him are Gabriela Mistral, Walther Bothe, Richard E. Byrd, Irving Langmuir, Heinrich Otto Wieland, and Joseph McCarthy. After him are Alfred Döblin, Curzio Malaparte, Jože Plečnik, František Kupka, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Heinrich Hoffmann.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 714 out of 5,161. Before him are Claudia Octavia (40), Quintus Sertorius (-126), John William Waterhouse (1849), Cassiodorus (487), Angela Merici (1474), and Renata Tebaldi (1922). After him are Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (1772), Ludovico Einaudi (1955), Giacomo della Porta (1533), Mario Monti (1943), Jacopo Sansovino (1486), and Prince Napoléon Bonaparte (1822).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ranks 51. Before him are Gabriele Amorth (1925), Aulus Gellius (123), Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), Eugenio Montale (1896), Dino Buzzati (1906), and Cassiodorus (487). After him are Poliziano (1454), Curzio Malaparte (1898), Giosuè Carducci (1835), Pietro Metastasio (1698), Giambattista Basile (1566), and Carlo Gozzi (1720).

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