<DIV><B>Offers a unique insight into the people and places that inspired the author of <I>The Leopard</I></B></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Perhaps in no other novel of the 20th century did the sense of time and place have such a central role and profound significance as in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's masterpiece <I>The Leopard</I>, a work<br>which captures Sicilian traditional society in a period of transition when faced with modernity and political upheaval. Written by Lampedusa's cousin and heir, Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, this new illustrated biography—which includes a wealth of unpublished pictures from Lampedusa's private albums in Casa Butera and documents from his family archive—explores all the people and places that were dear to the great Sicilian master and that are essential for a fuller understanding of his work.</DIV>