Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Giovanni Verga was born in 1840 into a landowning family in the city of Catania, on the east coast of Sicily, ...
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s 1958 novel, Il Gattopardo — made famous by the Italian director Luchino Visconti’s 1963 film The Leopard, starring Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale — briefly ...