Villa Lampedusa
Marina Warner, 5 January 1989
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa
by David Gilmour.
Quartet, 223 pp., £15.95, November 1988,0 7043 2564 0 Show More
by David Gilmour.
Quartet, 223 pp., £15.95, November 1988,
“... decided to sell the island of Lampedusa to the English. Rather than suffer such a disaster, the King of the Two Sicilies bought the useless rock for an inflated sum and restored the family fortunes, temporarily. Don Giulio, born in 1815, inspired the figure of the Leopard, though Gilmour discloses sadly that he did not discover two new stars, as the novel ... ”