The Last Leopard

The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa is a biography about the Italian writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, written by the English historian David Gilmour.

[1][2] It was published by Quartet Books in 1988.

[3] Herbert Mitgang of The New York Times called the book well-researched and fascinating.

He wrote that its only flaw is that it "avoids any real critical judgment of Lampedusa's dilettantism, his approval of Mussolini's military adventures and his desire for a revival of the moribund Italian monarchy".

[4] It received the 1989 Marsh Biography Award.