Giovanni Verga

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

UNA PECCATRICE Pietro Brusio, un giovane di Catania, studente di legge e con passioni letterarie, si innamora perdutamente di una donna incontrata casualmente durante una passeggiata ai giardini pubblici della citt . La donna si chiama Narcisa Valderi ed la moglie del conte di Prato. Lei, per , non sembra accettare la corte assidua del giovane che, desideroso di riscattarsi, compone in breve tempo un dramma, il Gilberto, che lo rende subito celebre.

Tigre reale un romanzo in diciannove capitoli di Giovanni Verga, pubblicato per la prima volta dall'editore Brigola a Milano nel 1875. Giorgio La Ferlita conosce a Firenze, Nata, una contessa russa malata di tubercolosi e ospite a Firenze per consiglio dei medici russi che l'avevano invitata a prendere aria salubre mediterranea, e ne rimane attratto. Invitato al ballo per sostituire uno spadaccino, accetta una sfida a duello e vince.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Giovanni Carmelo Verga (2 September 1840 - 27 January 1922) was a Sicilian realist (verista) writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, especially the short story (and later play) Cavalleria rusticana it] and the novel I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree). The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. He began writing in his teens, producing the largely unpublished, but currently quite famous, historical novel Amore e Patria (Love and Country); then, although nominally studying law at the University of Catania, he used money his father had given him to publish his I carbonari della montagna (The Carbonari of the Mountain) in 1861 and 1862. This was followed by Sulle lagune (On the Lagoons) in 1863. He moved to Milan in 1872, where he developed his new approach, characterized by the use of dialogue to develop character, which resulted in his most significant works. In 1880 his story collection Vita dei campi (Life in the Fields), including "Fantasticheria" ("Daydreaming"), "La lupa" ("The She-wolf"), "Jeli il pastore" ("Jeli the Shepherd"), "Pentolaccia" ("The Plaything"), and Rosso Malpelo, most of which were about rural Sicily, came out. It also included "Cavalleria rusticana" ("Rustic Chivalry"), which he adapted for the theatre and later formed the basis for several opera librettos including Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Gastaldon's Mala Pasqua . Verga's short story, "Malaria", was one of the first literary depictions of the disease malaria. He then embarked on a projected series of five novels, but only completed two, I Malavoglia and Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889), the second of which was the last major work of his literary career. Both are widely recognized as masterpieces. In 1894 Verga moved back to Catania, to the house in which he had lived as a child. In 1920 he was appointed Senator of the Kingdom (Senatore del Regno) for life (ad vitam). He died of a cerebral thrombosis in 1922. (wikipedia.org)

Giovanni Carmelo Verga (2 September 1840 - 27 January 1922) was a Sicilian realist (verista) writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, especially the short story (and later play) Cavalleria rusticana it] and the novel I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree). The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. He began writing in his teens, producing the largely unpublished, but currently quite famous, historical novel Amore e Patria (Love and Country); then, although nominally studying law at the University of Catania, he used money his father had given him to publish his I carbonari della montagna (The Carbonari of the Mountain) in 1861 and 1862. This was followed by Sulle lagune (On the Lagoons) in 1863. He moved to Milan in 1872, where he developed his new approach, characterized by the use of dialogue to develop character, which resulted in his most significant works. In 1880 his story collection Vita dei campi (Life in the Fields), including "Fantasticheria" ("Daydreaming"), "La lupa" ("The She-wolf"), "Jeli il pastore" ("Jeli the Shepherd"), "Pentolaccia" ("The Plaything"), and Rosso Malpelo, most of which were about rural Sicily, came out. It also included "Cavalleria rusticana" ("Rustic Chivalry"), which he adapted for the theatre and later formed the basis for several opera librettos including Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Gastaldon's Mala Pasqua . Verga's short story, "Malaria", was one of the first literary depictions of the disease malaria. He then embarked on a projected series of five novels, but only completed two, I Malavoglia and Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889), the second of which was the last major work of his literary career. Both are widely recognized as masterpieces. In 1894 Verga moved back to Catania, to the house in which he had lived as a child. In 1920 he was appointed Senator of the Kingdom (Senatore del Regno) for life (ad vitam). He died of a cerebral thrombosis in 1922. (wikipedia.org)

Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) on italialainen, ranskalaisesta naturalismista ja erityisesti Émile Zolan teoksista innoituksensa saaneen, verisminä tunnetun kirjallisen suuntauksen tärkein edustaja. Nyt suomennettu, alkujaan vuonna 1880 julkaistu novellikokoelma oli verismin ensimmäinen mestariteos. Siinä Verga kuvasi omien kotiseutujensa vaatimattoman väen elämää Sisiliassa. Todellisuuden luonnonmukaisen kuvaamisen hengessä Vergan novellien kertoja jättäytyy suosiolla taka-alalle ja antaa henkilöhahmojensa puhua omalla äänellään, niin ettei teoksen elävässä muodossa ole merkkiäkään mielestä jossa se versoi, varjoakaan silmästä joka sen aavisti. Sisilian maaseudulla ihmisten elämää ohjailevat näkymättömät lait ja kirjoittamattomat säännöt, ja tarinat kulkevat useimmiten traagista loppua kohti kuin vääjäämättömän loogisia uria seuraillen. Nimikkonovelli Cavalleria rusticana on tullut tunnetuksi myös Pietro Mascagnin oopperasovituksena. Giovanni Vergan tuotantoa on suomennettu yllättävän vähän. Romaani Malavoglian suku, jota pidetään Vergan pääteoksena, on suomennettu vuonna 1953, ja sen lisäksi vain muutama novelli joihinkin kokoomateoksiin.