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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    with greater realism. In so doing, Italian verismo authors such as Giovanni Verga wrote about subject matter, such as the lives of the poor, that had...
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    Mastro-don Gesualdo (category Novels by Giovanni Verga)
    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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    I Malavoglia (category Novels by Giovanni Verga)
    (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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    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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    Scandalous Gilda (1985), Evil Senses (1986) and a Sicilian film by Giovanni Verga, La lupa (1996). In theatre, she also wrote and directed Giovanna d'Arco...
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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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  • La lupa (1996 film) (category Films based on works by Giovanni Verga)
    by Gabriele Lavia. It is based on the novella with the same name by Giovanni Verga. Monica Guerritore: Gnà Pina "la lupa" Raoul Bova: Nanni Lasca Alessia...
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    Wilhelm II Joseph Stalin Buffalo Bill Bhagat Singh Prince Victor Napoleon Giovanni Verga Vincenzo Garioni Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Marcelo H. del...
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  • from the 1947 Italian film Fury, which was in turn loosely based on Giovanni Verga's novella La Lupa. The title song, "Wild Is the Wind", was performed...
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  • La Terra Trema (category Films based on works by Giovanni Verga)
    Luchino Visconti. A loose adaptation of the 1881 novel I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga, the film documents the economic and personal struggles of poor Sicilian...
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  • La Lupa (short story) (category Short stories by Giovanni Verga)
    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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    Rosso Malpelo (category Short stories by Giovanni Verga)
    "Rosso Malpelo" is a short story by Giovanni Verga. The title "Rosso Malpelo" is Italian for "evil redhead", a nickname which combines Rosso (red) with...
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  • Eça de Queiroz Old-fashioned Story by Magda Szabó I Malavoglia, by Giovanni Verga The Mallens, by Catherine Cookson Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides One...
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    regarded by writers of Italian literature, including Luigi Capuana, Giovanni Verga, Enrico Thovez, Pietro Pancrazi [it], Renato Serra [it]. Sardinian writers...
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  • (1891–1980) Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970) Giorgio van Straten (born 1955) Giovanni Verga (1840–1922) Grazia Verasani (born 1964), crime writer Giuseppe Vergani...
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    Rusticana, the libretto of which is based on the play of the same name by Giovanni Verga, who lived in Vizzini for a time. The statue depicting the Madonna and...
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    Salvatore Quasimodo (Nobel laureate, 1959), Giovanni Verga (the father of the Italian Verismo), Domenico Tempio, Giovanni Meli, Luigi Capuana, Mario Rapisardi...
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    Tigre reale (category Films based on works by Giovanni Verga)
    1916 silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone under the name Piero Fosco, adapting the eponymous 1875 novel by Giovanni Verga. Giorgio La Ferlita, Italian...
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  • height of neorealism, in 1948, Visconti adapted I Malavoglia, a novel by Giovanni Verga, written during the 19th century realist verismo movement, bringing...
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  • Super-Beasts "La Lupa" (short story) ("The She-Wolf"), a short story by Giovanni Verga The She Wolf (1919 film), a 1919 American silent short western film...
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  • of the 80th birthday of his mentor, famous novelist and playwright Giovanni Verga. He meets various strange personalities and a mix of melancholy and...
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  • Cavalleria rusticana (short story) (category Short stories by Giovanni Verga)
    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...
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    movement of Verismo in Southern Italy, its greatest Verista novelist Giovanni Verga formed in Sicily who wrote his most important books in Milan. In addition...
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  • also noting the influence of realist writers such as Luigi Capuana, Giovanni Verga, and Antonio Fogazzaro. The story itself is set in a small village in...
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    Zeffirelli and inspiration scenery of the homonymous novel of the writer Giovanni Verga. Muscoso eventually turned the ancient village into a stage denominating...
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