Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories
Chapter 1 of 9 Introduction
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- Running time
- 2 h 14 min
- Language
- English
- Read by
- Mary J
- Translated by
- Nathan Haskell Dole
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About this recording
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in rural, 19th-century Sicily. One of these stories, "Rustic Chivalry," or "Cavalleria rusticana," was the basis for the opera of the same name by Mascagni. - Summary by Mary J