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Giovanni Verga: vita e opere del maggior esponente del verismo italiano, autore di opere come I malavoglia e Rosso Malpelo. Daniel Raffini. Cosa imparerai. Gli eventi più importanti della vita...
Sep 17, 2023 · Giovanni Verga was one of the most important exponents of Verismo, an Italian literary movement based on Realism. Learn about the main characteristics of Verismo and Verga's key literary works.
Argomenti e biografie correlate. Storia della vita di Giovanni Verga, scrittore italiano. La vita agra. Leggendo questo profilo biografico puoi conoscere anche la bibliografia, la data in cui Giovanni Verga nacque, l'età e il giorno in cui morì.
Nationality: Italian. Born: Catania, Sicily, 2 September 1840. Education: Home and privately, 1851-60; studied law at University of Catania, 1860-65. Career: Lived in Florence, 1865-70, and Milan, 1870-85; then returned to Catania; made a senator, 1920. Died: 27 January 1922.
"Cavalleria rusticana" (Italian for 'Rustic Chivalry') is a short story by the Sicilian Giovanni Verga, published in a collection entitled Novelle rusticane in 1883 and presented in dramatic form as a one-act tragedy at Turin in 1884. Pietro Mascagni made this prose play the basis of the verse-libretto of his one-act opera, Cavalleria rusticana ...
Italian: “Rustic Chivalry”. Cavalleria rusticana, short story by Giovanni Verga, written in verismo style and published in 1880. The author’s adaptation of the story into a one-act tragedy (produced in 1884) was his greatest success as a playwright.
Even though he was not himself a peasant, Giovanni Verga sought to interpret the world of the peasants in their own terms. Born in 1840, in Catania, Sicily, to an aristocratic family, Verga at age twenty-five published his first novel and moved to Florence, and then, eight years later, to Milan.
