Giovanni Verga House Museum, Sicily Island

Giovanni Verga House Museum - details and images

The house, built according to plan a nineteenth century palace, is a household where Verga and spent his childhood and lived for long periods of time surrounded by family and friends.

Patriarch Giovanni Verga was heir to the writer, and his wife after his death the house was restored and opened to the public.
The interior is furnished and kept the books that belonged to Giovanni Verga. Among the 2,600 books are works of Giacosa, Oriani, Rod, Capuana, Of Giacomo, Deledda, Marinetti, Borgese, Villaroel, and Russian and French writers as: Turghenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Flaubert, Maupassant, Dumas, Zola.

After the death of writer and objects found in the house who spoke of his passion for photography. Plates and films (currently in private collection) are showing a documentary interest. Photographs of family members: mother, brothers, sisters, uncles, nephews and peasants who worked for the Verga family. Interest in photography (in the second half of the nineteenth century included the intellectuals of the bourgeoisie that had this hobby) has united with Capuana and De Roberto Verga.

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Salon: a spacious room. Furnished with windows that expose vergaian reproductions of manuscript. On the wall is a frame 1920 with a diploma and Abbot Alexander rustic paintings, gift of the writer's association gave the Union Club at the age of 80 years. In one corner stands a bust of Verga, and a table in a wooden box, a wax mask reproduce the Catalan Giovanni Verga's Handkerchief, father of the writer.

Library: 6 walnut library displays Verga's personal volumes. Leather-bound, they exude a fascination nineteenth century publishing discretion and elegance. Writer gilded initials "GV" appears on the card. In covering the large mass objects are scattered in the middle of the room: a tagliacarte, a pad, tile reproduction of his campaign in Rovereto. On the walls, a portrait of the writer Antonio Abbot, Verga's tax collector.

Bedroom: has a large fireplace and wall of family portraits, and two framed photographs, the work of Michele Grit, which represents Verga and his grandson Mark. Four rooms used as bedrooms.

Dining Room: The room where lunch. On one wall is Calcedony Reina's painting, contemporary painter and poet Verga, a friend and Mario Bartolo Of Rapisardi.

Giovanni Verga, novelist and a novelist, is one of the greatest representatives of Italian realism or naturalism. His first novels were published in a literary climate influenced manzoniană and Scottish production and theories of French naturalism.
Capuana Verga and are considered the founders of realism (verismo). His characters are fishermen, peasants, petty people that move in a little known fact for more, characterized by regional issues and language that opens up new syntactic features and the use of dialect expressions.

It was translated into many languages, have made films and plays that delight audiences with unforgettable characters.

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