by Giovanni Verga · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807901447
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«Mastro-don Gesualdo» is the Italian verismo novel by Giovanni Verga, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (400 pages, in Italian).
The novel follows Gesualdo Motta, a man of humble origins who amasses a fortune through effort and ambition. Set in Vizzini, it shows the class struggle between the nouveaux riches and the declining aristocracy. Despite material success, the protagonist ends up alone before his family and the society he wanted to conquer.
Second novel of the «I vinti» cycle by Giovanni Verga, in the Universale Economica I Classici collection from Feltrinelli, edited by E. Di Mauro.
For readers interested in Italian verismo and 19th-century European literature.
Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca was an Italian realist (verista) writer. His novels I Malavoglia (1881) and Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889) are widely recognized as masterpieces. Verga has been called the greatest Italian novelist after Manzoni. D. H. Lawrence translated several of his works into English.
