Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories
Author: first_name: Giovanni
last_name: Verga
Language: English
Year: 1895

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