Quotes About Verga

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.

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.

Pitrè did in folklore what Verga had done in literature; he was the first folklorist to transcribe not only traditional motifs or linguistic usages, but the inner poetry of the stories.