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Giovanni Verga

Giovanni Verga

Author 9 / Writer 3 · 1873 – 1973 · 🎬 3 📖 9

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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