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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...
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    (Italian pronunciation: [i malaˈvɔʎʎa]) is the best known novel by Giovanni Verga. It was first printed in 1881. The readers' good reception of the short...
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  • wood'. Alejandro Verga, Argentine field hockey player Bob Verga, American basketball player Giovanni Verga, Italian writer Joseph ibn Verga, 16th-century...
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    libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga. Considered...
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  • writer Giovanni Verga, first published in 1880. "La Lupa" is one of a series of short stories about peasant life in Sicily published by Giovanni Verga between...
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  • movement which aimed to describe reality. Its main representatives were Giovanni Verga and Luigi Capuana, regarded as the authors of a "manifesto" of the genre...
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    movement which peaked between approximately 1875 and the early 1900s. Giovanni Verga and Luigi Capuana were its main exponents and the authors of a verismo...
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    with S. S. Koteliansky Giovanni Verga Mastro-Don Gesualdo (1923) Giovanni Verga Little Novels of Sicily (1925) Giovanni Verga Cavalleria Rusticana and...
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    Mastro-don Gesualdo is an Italian novel written by Giovanni Verga, published in 1889. The first English edition, Master Don Gesualdo (1893), was translated...
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    writers, including the composers Vincenzo Bellini and Giovanni Pacini, and the writers Giovanni Verga, Luigi Capuana, Federico De Roberto and Nino Martoglio...
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