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Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca ( Italian: [dʒoˈvanni karˈmɛːlo ˈverɡa]; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist ( verista) writer. Life and career. The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily.
Giovanni Verga was a novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, most important of the Italian verismo (Realist) school of novelists (see verismo). His reputation was slow to develop, but modern critics have assessed him as one of the greatest of all Italian novelists.
Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca ( Catania, 2 settembre 1840 [1] [2] – Catania, 27 gennaio 1922) è stato uno scrittore, drammaturgo e politico italiano, considerato il maggior esponente della corrente letteraria del Verismo [1] . Di nobili natali [3], visse in un ambiente di tradizioni liberali.
Giovanni Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia. The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily.
Giovanni Verga is best known as a novelist and a short-story writer and is generally considered Italy’s greatest novelist, after Alessandro Manzoni, and the father of the...
iovanni Verga was born in 1840 into a landowning family in the city of Catania, on the east coast of Sicily, almost in the shadow of Etna. He began to write early. In 1865 he departed for the mainland, first to Florence and then Milan.
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