Talk:Giovanni Verga

Clarification needed
I am confused what "mostly unpublished novel" means. Can an editor familiar with the circumstances of this book rewrite the sentence slightly to clarify? Professor marginalia 19:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Good pick up. The Italian versions says:
 * La formazione quindi del Verga narratore avvenne sulle pagine di Castorina e su "Il Progresso e la Morte" dell'Abate e a soli quindici anni, tra il 1856 ed il 1857, Verga scrisse il suo primo romanzo d'ispirazione risorgimentale "Amore e patria" rimasto inedito.


 * I suoi studi superiori non furono regolari. Iscrittosi nel 1858 alla Facoltà di legge all'Università di Catania, non terminò i corsi,preferendo dedicarsi all'attività letteraria e al giornalismo politico.


 * Con il denaro datogli dal padre per concludere gli studi, il giovane pubblicò a sue spese il romanzo "I carbonari della montagna" (1861- 1862), un romanzo storico che si ispira alle imprese della Carboneria calabrese contro il dispotismo napoleonico di Murat.


 * This version certainly differs from the current English version, at least in the emphasis, but I think to does expose the current intro as containing errors of fact. The Italian version decribes his first novel as unpublished, I can only conclude that the term "mostly unpublished novel" refers to extracts that may have appeared in the many collections of Verga's work that have appeared over the past half century.  Should we simply describe it as "unpublished"?  The other point, that is clearly an error, is that the English version appears to state that Verga used the proceeds from this unpublished book to publish his first work, when in fact he used money his father had given him for completing his studies.  I think we can safely make that change.  πίππύ δ'Ω∑ -  (waarom? jus'b'coz!)  03:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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Officeholder infobox
When I edited the article just now, the draft was red-tagged because the Officeholder Infobox included a parameter that didn't belong: Movement. (Note that I am using upper case here for emphasis; the actual values are all lower case.)  Movement is a parameter for the Writer Infobox template. And it makes me wonder why Verga gets the Officeholder template. He was an honorary senator for little more than the last year of his life. Almost his entire life was occupied with writing, where he made a significant mark. I may get back to this and change the infobox to Writer. Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 04:31, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Contradiction
This article states that the story "Rustic Chivalry" was published in 1880 in The Life of the Fields (1880) (Vita dei campi). The Wikipedia article Cavalleria rusticana (short story) states that it was published in 1883 in Novelle Rusticane. Maurice Magnus (talk) 03:03, 28 December 2022 (UTC)