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Giovanni Verga

Died on January 27, 1922

104

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Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca (Italian:; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist (verista) writer. His novels I Malavoglia (1881) and Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889) are widely recognized as masterpieces.

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