He was the author of probably the most loved and admired novel ever written in Italian, but when Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, died in 1957 at 60, he thought his life as a writer had ended in failure.
His only completed novel, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), had been rejected by two publishing houses. In Places of My Infancy, his never-completed memoir, Lampedusa addresses the reader “who won’t exist”; he believed his words were doomed to remain unread forever.
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