Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories Quotes

“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.”
― Giovanni Verga, Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories

“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.”
― Giovanni Verga, Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories

“This included the famous tale Cavalleria rusticana, later adapted by Verga for the theatre, this adaptation then being used as the basis for the libretto of Mascagni’s opera.”
― Giovanni Verga, Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories

“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a teenager he drafted the first of three historical romances, Amore e Patria (Love and Country), which remained largely unpublished.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.”
― Giovanni Verga, Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories