Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was a Sicilian nobleman, Duke of Parma and Prince of Lampedusa. He was born in Palermo in 1896 and died in Rome in 1957. He lived the life of a literary dilettante, was familiar with the great literatures of the world, an was widely travelled. Much of Lampedusa's other work is collected in The Siren and Other Writings. Read More Read Less