![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. Meanwhile, Verga had been serving in the Catania National Guar Giovanni Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia. This was followed by Sulle Lagune (In the Lagoons) in 1863. He began writing in his teens, producing the largely unpublished historical novel Amore e Patria (Love and Country) then, although nominally studying law at the University of Catania, he used money his father had given him to publish his I Carbonari della Montagna (The Carbonari of the Mountain) in 18. Giovanni Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia. ![]()
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