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GIOVANNI See also:VERGA (1840- ) , See also:Italian novelist, was See also:born at See also:Catania, See also:Sicily . In 1865 he published Storia di una peccatrice and I See also:Carbonari della montagna, but his See also:literary reputation was established by his Eva and Storia di una capinera (1869) . Other novels followed, the best of which are Malavoglia (1881) and See also:Maestro See also:Don Gesualdo (1889) . His finest See also:work, however, is seen in his See also:short stories and sketches of Sicilian peasantry, Medda (1874) and Vita dei See also:campi (188o); and his Cavalleria Rusticana acquired new popularity from its dramatization and from See also:Mascagni's See also:opera on this subject . See also:Verga and Fogazzaro between them may be said to have faithfully chronicled the inner and popular See also:life of See also:southern and See also:northern See also:Italy . |
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