# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-verga
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:31:08.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giovanni-verga"
name: "Giovanni Verga"
slug: "giovanni-verga"
description: "Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca was an Italian realist (verista) writer. His novels I Malavoglia (1881) and Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889) are widely recognized as masterpieces. Verga has been called the greatest Italian novelist after Manzoni. D. H. Lawrence translated several of his works into English."
tagline: "Italian writer (1840-1922)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Giovanni_Verga.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1840-09-02"
deathDate: "1922-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump