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.
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Portrait of the young Verga by Antonino Gandolfo
Illustration for the Treves edition of Vergas's Vita dei campi, Milan, 1897
Posthumous edition of Verga's unfinished novel La duchessa di Leyra, introduced by Federico De Roberto
A 20th-century edition of I Malavoglia
Verga's house-museum in Catania
Photo by Verga of Sicilian couple who worked his property in 1897Awards 1
Connected to Giovanni 6
Giovanni PastroneAlso in The Royal Tigress (1916)
Pina MenichelliAlso in The Royal Tigress (1916)
Febo MariAlso in The Royal Tigress (1916)
John J. PershingAlso won Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
Pietro BadoglioAlso won Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
Pietro ParolinAlso won Order of Saints Maurice and LazarusAbout this person
Country
ItalyCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1840 to 1922 · aged 81
Written about in
32 languages
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