Author of "Cavalleria Rusticana'""
In the death of Giovanni Verga, lat the age of eighty-two, Italy loses one of her greatest writers, to be named in the same breath as Ales. sador Manzoni, says the Rome conespondent of the ''Observer." Adored by his friends, revered for ihis genius by all lovers of literature and neglected by the crowd, Verga lived quietly in Sicily for the greater part of his life. He shunned the limelight, and when, at the age of 60, he felt he had given his best work to the world, he refused to write a single extra line, in spite of tempting offers from solicitous publishers, Like all the best writers who have not had the good luck to be born in Tuscany, Verga came to Florence to imbibe the Italian language at its source. a time he lived in Milan, in contact with the best intellects of the day. As quite a boy he wrote "Amore Patma,'' which his tuter counselled him to burn "Jest he repent it all kis. life" In 1859, at the age of 18 wrote "I Carbonari delia Mon-tagua," as an outlet for his sorrow and delusion after the Peace of Villafranca. His first novel, still the most popular, headed " series where we read of lovers conquered, and, for the most part, stricken in anguish by love.
Verga began his important work in 1880 with stories of Sicilian life Vita dei Campi," "Per lo Vie,'" ete. Both Eleonora Duse and Mascagni owe their first fame to his story. Cavalleria Rusticana."" In these tales and'in his two finest novels, "I Malavoglia" and '"Maestro Don Gesualdo," he depicted men and women conquered by life and by a fate they felt, powerless to combat. In this mature work Vergai showed how completely he had slipped away from Manzoni's influence and turned towards the French school of realism. His favourite author, it is said, was Flaubert. Born and bred in Sicily, of ancient stock, going back to Spanish ancestry, his style his power of c: eatiom his outlook on love and life, have taken something of the classical beauty and austere tenderness of Sicilian landscape and of the monumental fatality of the people.
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