Lampedusa
Americannoun
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Giuseppe (Tomasi) di 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
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an island in the Mediterranean, between Tunisia and Malta: belonging to Italy.
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Example Sentences
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When the Trump administration invited the native-born Chicagoan to visit the U.S. for America’s 250th anniversary, Leo instead decided to spend his Fourth of July on Lampedusa, the Ellis Island of the Mediterranean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
In August 2019, he boarded the Open Arms rescue ship near Lampedusa, where migrants were stranded after being denied permission to dock.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
But another writer comes to mind as well—the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, whose 1958 “The Leopard” offers a layered totalizing portrait of a society that is both changing and failing to change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
After four months of being exploited in Libya, Esther escaped and crossed the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy from which she was rescued by the Italian coast guard and taken to the island of Lampedusa.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
Lampedusa, on the other hand, consists of limestone, which lies about in great blocks on its surface.
From Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders by T. Eric (Thomas Eric) Peet
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