(1840-09-02)2 September 1840 Catania, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Died
27 January 1922(1922-01-27) (aged 81) Catania, Kingdom of Italy
Nationality
Italian
Political party
Historical Left (1890–1896) Historical Right (1896–1911) Italian Nationalist Association (1911–1922)
Occupation
Writer
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Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca (Italian:[dʒoˈvannikarˈmɛːloˈverɡa]; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist (verista) writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, especially the short story and later play Cavalleria rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree).[1]
^"Giovanni Verga | Italian author". Britannica.com. 27 January 1922. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni karˈmɛːlo ˈverɡa]; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist (verista) writer...
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"Rosso Malpelo" is a short story by GiovanniVerga. The title "Rosso Malpelo" is Italian for "evil redhead", a nickname which combines Rosso (red) with...
libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by GiovanniVerga. Considered...
with greater realism. In so doing, Italian verismo authors such as GiovanniVerga wrote about subject matter, such as the lives of the poor, that had...
writers, including the composers Vincenzo Bellini and Giovanni Pacini, and the writers GiovanniVerga, Luigi Capuana, Federico De Roberto and Nino Martoglio...
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height of neorealism, in 1948, Visconti adapted I Malavoglia, a novel by GiovanniVerga, written during the 19th century realist verismo movement, bringing...
Luchino Visconti. A loose adaptation of the 1881 novel I Malavoglia by GiovanniVerga, the film documents the economic and personal struggles of poor Sicilian...
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1916 silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone under the name Piero Fosco, adapting the eponymous 1875 novel by GiovanniVerga. Giorgio La Ferlita, Italian...
Rusticana, the libretto of which is based on the play of the same name by GiovanniVerga, who lived in Vizzini for a time. The statue depicting the Madonna and...
Salvatore Quasimodo (Nobel laureate, 1959), GiovanniVerga (the father of the Italian Verismo), Domenico Tempio, Giovanni Meli, Luigi Capuana, Mario Rapisardi...
regarded by writers of Italian literature, including Luigi Capuana, GiovanniVerga, Enrico Thovez, Pietro Pancrazi [it], Renato Serra [it]. Sardinian writers...
again. The new theatre is named after the writer GiovanniVerga. "Sinfonia d'Autunno - Teatro Verga - Catania | Sicilia Orientale". www.siciliaorientale...
movement of Verismo in Southern Italy, its greatest Verista novelist GiovanniVerga formed in Sicily who wrote his most important books in Milan. In addition...
Lattuada of GiovanniVerga's short story La lupa, a 1955 film by Luis Lucia La lupa, a 1996 film adaptation by Gabriele Lavia of GiovanniVerga's short story...
possible sources in Italian literature, suggesting such authors as GiovanniVerga or Luigi Pirandello. In 2016 an Italian critic for the first time found...
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