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Изданието включва едни от най-хубавите произведения на класика на италианския веризъм. Това са разказите:
* „Селска чест“ (известен предимно под своя популярен италиански наслов „Кавалерия Рустикана“, станал основа на едноименната опера от Пиетро Маскани)
* „Неда“
* „Вълчицата“
* „Призванието на сестра Аньезе“
* „Кръчмата „Добри приятели“ “
* „Папа Сикст“
и много други
Изданието включва едни от най-хубавите произведения на класика на италианския веризъм. Това са разказите:
* „Селска чест“ (известен предимно под своя популярен италиански наслов „Кавалерия Рустикана“, станал основа на едноименната опера от Пиетро Маскани)
* „Неда“
* „Вълчицата“
* „Призванието на сестра Аньезе“
* „Кръчмата „Добри приятели“ “
* „Папа Сикст“
и много други
336 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1880
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About the author
Giovanni Verga
482 books201 followersGiovanni 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.
The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. He began writing in his teens, producing the largely unpublished historical novel Amore e Patria (Love and Country); then, although nominally studying law at the University of Catania, he used money his father had given him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 1861 and 1862. This was followed by Sulle Lagune (In the Lagoons) in 1863.
Meanwhile, Verga had been serving in the Catania National Guard (1860-64), after which he travelled to Florence several times, settling there in 1869.
He moved to Milan in 1872, where he developed his new approach, characterized by the use of dialogue to develop character, which resulted in his most significant works. In 1880 his story collection Vita dei Campi (Life in the Fields), (including Fantasticheria, La Lupa, and Pentolacchia) most of which were about rural Sicily, came out; it included the Cavalleria Rusticana, which was adapted for the theatre and later the libretto of the Mascagni opera. Verga's short story, "Malaria", was one of the first literary depictions of the disease.
He then embarked on a projected series of five novels, but only completed two, I Malavoglia and Mastro-Don Gesualdo (1889), the latter of which was the last major work of his literary career. Both are widely recognized as masterpieces.
In 1894 Verga moved back to the house he was born in. In 1920 he was elected a senator. He died of a cerebral thrombosis in 1922.
The Teatro Verga in Catania is named after him.
In the book by Silvia Iannello Le immagini e le parole dei Malavoglia (Sovera, Roma, 2008), the author selects some passages of the Giovanni Verga' novel I Malavoglia, adds original comments and Acitrezza' photographic images, and devotes a chapter to the origins, remarks and frames taken from the immortal movie La terra trema (1948) directed by Luchino Visconti.
The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. 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 1861 and 1862. This was followed by Sulle Lagune (In the Lagoons) in 1863.
Meanwhile, Verga had been serving in the Catania National Guard (1860-64), after which he travelled to Florence several times, settling there in 1869.
He moved to Milan in 1872, where he developed his new approach, characterized by the use of dialogue to develop character, which resulted in his most significant works. In 1880 his story collection Vita dei Campi (Life in the Fields), (including Fantasticheria, La Lupa, and Pentolacchia) most of which were about rural Sicily, came out; it included the Cavalleria Rusticana, which was adapted for the theatre and later the libretto of the Mascagni opera. Verga's short story, "Malaria", was one of the first literary depictions of the disease.
He then embarked on a projected series of five novels, but only completed two, I Malavoglia and Mastro-Don Gesualdo (1889), the latter of which was the last major work of his literary career. Both are widely recognized as masterpieces.
In 1894 Verga moved back to the house he was born in. In 1920 he was elected a senator. He died of a cerebral thrombosis in 1922.
The Teatro Verga in Catania is named after him.
In the book by Silvia Iannello Le immagini e le parole dei Malavoglia (Sovera, Roma, 2008), the author selects some passages of the Giovanni Verga' novel I Malavoglia, adds original comments and Acitrezza' photographic images, and devotes a chapter to the origins, remarks and frames taken from the immortal movie La terra trema (1948) directed by Luchino Visconti.
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June 11, 2019
"You haven’t been to Cavalleria Rusticana? I thought it too lovely! He’s giving a concert this evening, but we can’t go because it’s to be in the town hall."
This passage in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time had me wondering what is "Cavalleria Rusticana", so of course I had to look that up. I love finding books through my reads which helps me understand the story better. So this opera is based on Giovanni Verga's short story. Before commenting on this work, a little history is provided from the collection of his work from which I read, notes and highlights are located there, look under author's name. I did not read this Kindle edition.
"GIOVANNI VERGA was born in Catania, Sicily, in 1840, into a prosperous bourgeois family. He wrote many novels and short stories, and also a number of plays, mostly based on his own stories. While still a teenager he drafted the first of three historical romances, Amore e Patria (Love and Country), which remained largely unpublished. This was followed in 1859 by I Carbonari della montagna (The Carbonari in the Mountains), written while he was reading law at Catania University and published in 1861/2 using money intended for his studies."
"Although the earliest English translations of Giovanni Verga’s narrative writings had already appeared in the last decade of the nineteenth century, it was not until after his death that his reputation as one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the modern era was given fresh impetus in the English-speaking world. The writer who championed Verga’s cause was D. H. Lawrence, whose own translation of Verga’s novel, Mastro-don Gesualdo, was first published in New York in 1923, and in London two years later. "
"When Lawrence came to Taormina, Verga was living in Catania, a few miles further down the eastern Sicilian coast, and in the autumn of 1921, when his writings first attracted Lawrence’s attention, he was an octogenarian with only a few months left to live. Shortly after Verga’s death in January 1922, Lawrence wrote to a correspondent in New York that ‘Poor old Verga went and died exactly as I was going to see him in Catania. But he was 82 years old.’"
From Encyclopedia Britannica online
"Cavalleria rusticana, (Italian: “Rustic Chivalry”)opera in one act by the Italian composer Pietro Mascagni (Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci) that premiered in Rome on May 17, 1890. A short and intense work, it sets to music the Italian writer Giovanni Verga’s short story (1880) and play (produced 1884) of the same name, which tells a story of love, betrayal, and revenge in Sicily. Mascagni’s opera was an instant success, and it started a trend in opera for the naturalistic, often violent verismostyle associated in literature with Verga and his contemporary Luigi Capuana. "
From Wikipedia
"Mascagni heard about the competition only two months before the closing date and asked his friend Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, a poet and professor of literature at the Italian Royal Naval Academy in Livorno, to provide a libretto. Targioni-Tozzetti chose Cavalleria rusticana, a popular short story (and play) by Giovanni Verga, as the basis for the opera. "
Enjoy the beautiful pictures and music,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQ2D6A...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7OvsVSW...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZvxUHu...
After reading book 2 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, I decided on reading Verga's short story. It actually took me less then 20 minutes to read, so it is quick. The story is a little different than the opera, Santa tells Lola's husband something after her return and scolds Tirrudu but she does not beg him as in the Opera. She seemed of harder stuff, not a woman to be ridiculed.
To go on much more would be to tell this story in all, so all I will add is this is pure vendetta Sicilian style.
The story in short- a young soldier comes back looking for his fiance but finds things are not as he would like.
No really big surprises but a wonderfully sad story, worth the read IMO. My review took longer to do then my reading this work! LOL 💖💜
This passage in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time had me wondering what is "Cavalleria Rusticana", so of course I had to look that up. I love finding books through my reads which helps me understand the story better. So this opera is based on Giovanni Verga's short story. Before commenting on this work, a little history is provided from the collection of his work from which I read, notes and highlights are located there, look under author's name. I did not read this Kindle edition.
"GIOVANNI VERGA was born in Catania, Sicily, in 1840, into a prosperous bourgeois family. He wrote many novels and short stories, and also a number of plays, mostly based on his own stories. While still a teenager he drafted the first of three historical romances, Amore e Patria (Love and Country), which remained largely unpublished. This was followed in 1859 by I Carbonari della montagna (The Carbonari in the Mountains), written while he was reading law at Catania University and published in 1861/2 using money intended for his studies."
"Although the earliest English translations of Giovanni Verga’s narrative writings had already appeared in the last decade of the nineteenth century, it was not until after his death that his reputation as one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the modern era was given fresh impetus in the English-speaking world. The writer who championed Verga’s cause was D. H. Lawrence, whose own translation of Verga’s novel, Mastro-don Gesualdo, was first published in New York in 1923, and in London two years later. "
"When Lawrence came to Taormina, Verga was living in Catania, a few miles further down the eastern Sicilian coast, and in the autumn of 1921, when his writings first attracted Lawrence’s attention, he was an octogenarian with only a few months left to live. Shortly after Verga’s death in January 1922, Lawrence wrote to a correspondent in New York that ‘Poor old Verga went and died exactly as I was going to see him in Catania. But he was 82 years old.’"
From Encyclopedia Britannica online
"Cavalleria rusticana, (Italian: “Rustic Chivalry”)opera in one act by the Italian composer Pietro Mascagni (Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci) that premiered in Rome on May 17, 1890. A short and intense work, it sets to music the Italian writer Giovanni Verga’s short story (1880) and play (produced 1884) of the same name, which tells a story of love, betrayal, and revenge in Sicily. Mascagni’s opera was an instant success, and it started a trend in opera for the naturalistic, often violent verismostyle associated in literature with Verga and his contemporary Luigi Capuana. "
From Wikipedia
"Mascagni heard about the competition only two months before the closing date and asked his friend Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, a poet and professor of literature at the Italian Royal Naval Academy in Livorno, to provide a libretto. Targioni-Tozzetti chose Cavalleria rusticana, a popular short story (and play) by Giovanni Verga, as the basis for the opera. "
Enjoy the beautiful pictures and music,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQ2D6A...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7OvsVSW...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZvxUHu...
After reading book 2 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, I decided on reading Verga's short story. It actually took me less then 20 minutes to read, so it is quick. The story is a little different than the opera, Santa tells Lola's husband something after her return and scolds Tirrudu but she does not beg him as in the Opera. She seemed of harder stuff, not a woman to be ridiculed.
To go on much more would be to tell this story in all, so all I will add is this is pure vendetta Sicilian style.
The story in short- a young soldier comes back looking for his fiance but finds things are not as he would like.
No really big surprises but a wonderfully sad story, worth the read IMO. My review took longer to do then my reading this work! LOL 💖💜
September 15, 2013
Giovanni Verga's literary output is split between the urbane, cultured novels that reflect his well-to-do upbringing and residence in Milan and tales of the fishermen and townspeople of his native Sicily. The former are forgotten; the latter continue to have resonance. "Cavalleria Rusticana" belongs mostly to the latter vein, which includes the much-revered and innovative novels "Maestro Don Gesualdo" and "Il malivoglia", which I read as "The House by the Medlar Tree". The stories in this volume lack the wide scope, the probing examination of society of the novels. A fair portion of them are about infidelity and violent revenge, including the title story itself (the opera made from it is the one that the Corleones attend in "Godfather III"). Verga's wit is best revealed in "War of Saints", in which rival supporters of two saints clash. But the remaining stories are all examinations of passion gone wrong, even "Rosso Malpelo" in which a son never recovers from the loss of his father in the salt mine where they both work. "Gramigna's Lover" is the closest examination of passion, in this case of a girl who abandons society and the man willing to marry her for a doomed robber. The urban tales, "Caprice" and "The How, When, and Wherefore" examine passion in high society and find it, surprise, shallow and fickle. Those stories could have been written by any writer familiar with the upper class of the era and many would have given them greater impact; it is Sicily that brings out Verga's special gifts.
August 29, 2020
Cit.
O Lola ch'ai di latti la cammisa
Si bianca e russa comu la cirasa,
Quannu t'affacci fai la vucca a risa,
Biato cui ti dà lu primu vasu!
Breve lettura consigliata!
O Lola ch'ai di latti la cammisa
Si bianca e russa comu la cirasa,
Quannu t'affacci fai la vucca a risa,
Biato cui ti dà lu primu vasu!
Breve lettura consigliata!
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