(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...
(Italian pronunciation: [i malaˈvɔʎʎa]) is the best known novel by GiovanniVerga. It was first printed in 1881. The readers' good reception of the short...
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movement which aimed to describe reality. Its main representatives were GiovanniVerga and Luigi Capuana, regarded as the authors of a "manifesto" of the genre...
libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by GiovanniVerga. Considered...
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writers, including the composers Vincenzo Bellini and Giovanni Pacini, and the writers GiovanniVerga, Luigi Capuana, Federico De Roberto and Nino Martoglio...
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...
height of neorealism, in 1948, Visconti adapted I Malavoglia, a novel by GiovanniVerga, written during the 19th century realist verismo movement, bringing...
Eça de Queiroz Old-fashioned Story by Magda Szabó I Malavoglia, by GiovanniVerga The Mallens, by Catherine Cookson Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides One...
Luchino Visconti. A loose adaptation of the 1881 novel I Malavoglia by GiovanniVerga, the film documents the economic and personal struggles of poor Sicilian...
movement of Verismo in Southern Italy, its greatest Verista novelist GiovanniVerga formed in Sicily who wrote his most important books in Milan. In addition...
1916 silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone under the name Piero Fosco, adapting the eponymous 1875 novel by GiovanniVerga. Giorgio La Ferlita, Italian...
regarded by writers of Italian literature, including Luigi Capuana, GiovanniVerga, Enrico Thovez, Pietro Pancrazi [it], Renato Serra [it]. Sardinian writers...
(born 1881) January 27 Nellie Bly, American journalist (born 1864) GiovanniVerga, Italian author (born 1840) February 3 Sarah Newcomb Merrick, Canadian-born...
Salvatore Quasimodo (Nobel laureate, 1959), GiovanniVerga (the father of the Italian Verismo), Domenico Tempio, Giovanni Meli, Luigi Capuana, Mario Rapisardi...
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...
again. The new theatre is named after the writer GiovanniVerga. "Sinfonia d'Autunno - Teatro Verga - Catania | Sicilia Orientale". www.siciliaorientale...
possible sources in Italian literature, suggesting such authors as GiovanniVerga or Luigi Pirandello. In 2016 an Italian critic for the first time found...
presented in popular culture. The 1889 novel Mastro-don Gesualdo by GiovanniVerga presents the course of a cholera epidemic across the island of Sicily...
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