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“The present study of Giovanni Verga and his time, great hopes and bitter disappointments, uncommon courage and hopeless despair, heroic optimism against impossible odds as manifested in Verga’s characters … reflects extensive scholarly research into various sources, mostly well-known literary critics who have sought to cast more light into Verga’s work, from his contemporary era to our present time … The author and her sources maintain that Verga’s work was shaped by his early experience in his native island of Sicily where he, the son of local nobility, grew up among the poor, “the doomed” he understood and loved so much. It was also shaped by his early travels to northern, more sophisticated Italian cities, as evidenced by his early romantic, even sentimental writings … Worthy of special attention is Verga’s lengthy experience in Milan where he lived from 1872 to 1893. It was there that Verga met Arrigo Boito, Emilio Praga and other bohemian artists of the so-called
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