A number one boy of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga & Caterina Di Mauro. Vergthe was natural into a prosperous personal of Catania in Sicily. He began writing inside his teens, producing a mostly unpublished historical novel Amore e Patria (Love and United states); so, although nominally researching law at Catania University, he used a few of the money to publish his I personally Carbonari della montagna (A Carbonari in the Mountains) around 1861 and 1862. This was followed by Sulle laguna (In the Laguna) inside 1863.

Meanwhile, Verga got been serving in the Catania National Guard (1860-64), after which he travelled to Florence several times, settling there around 1869.

He moved to Milan in 1872, where he developed his freshly approach, characterized per utilize of dialogue to develop character, which resulted within his virtually all important works. Within 1880 his story collection Vita dei campi (Life in the Fields), most of which were all about rural Sicily, come out; it involved a Cavalleria rusticana, which was adapted for the theater and later a libretto of the Mascagni opera. Verga's short story, "Malaria", was one of the foremost literary depictions of the disease.

He so start up the projected series of 5 novels, but only completed 2, I Malavoglia and Mastro Don Gesualdo (1889), a latter of which was the previous major operate of his literary career.

Around 1894 Vergthe moved back to the home he was innate inside, in which he died of a cerebral thrombosis in 1922.

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