5/26/2023 0 Comments I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga![]() Other factors limited the popularity of Verga's mature work even in Italy. In the same manner, Verga’s vision of life appears to have been borrowed from others: from the French this time… Italians are like this: they always act a part to be on a par with someone’s else vision of life. ![]() When we read Manzoni we ask ourselves if he's more “gothic” or German than Italian. The trouble with Verga is, that as all Italians, that we can never find an exact place for him. ![]() Lawrence, an admirer and translator of Verga, couldn't quite pin him down: ![]() The English-speaking world knows little, if anything, about the writer Giovanni Verga: at most, he's known to opera fans because composer Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, the one-act opera usually played in tandem with that other one act-opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo, I Pagliacci (a combination known to aficionados as Cav-Pag), was adapted from one of Verga’s short stories. ![]()
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