Giovanni Verga - Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories
Giovanni Verga
Summary
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in rural, 19th-century Sicily. One of these stories, «Rustic Chivalry,» or «Cavalleria rusticana,» was the basis for the opera of the same name by Mascagni. — Summary by Mary J
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