. The Italy of the Italians. Rusticana, dealing with the manners and humours of Sicilianexiscsnce, told with brevity, with illuminating lightningflashes of insight, will survive as valuable documents for thesocial history of Sicily even after the conditions they depicthave yielded to progress. Each is a little masterpiece in itsown line and one, Cavalleria Rusticana, is familiar all theworld over because of its musical setting by Pietro Sicilian peasant tales form an interesting contrast toGeorge Sands idyllic pictures of the life of the Berri did Verga rest content
. The Italy of the Italians. Rusticana, dealing with the manners and humours of Sicilianexiscsnce, told with brevity, with illuminating lightningflashes of insight, will survive as valuable documents for thesocial history of Sicily even after the conditions they depicthave yielded to progress. Each is a little masterpiece in itsown line and one, Cavalleria Rusticana, is familiar all theworld over because of its musical setting by Pietro Sicilian peasant tales form an interesting contrast toGeorge Sands idyllic pictures of the life of the Berri did Verga rest content to deal with his native compatriotsin such comparatively brief compass. He also began asequence of romances that were to treat in complexity of thelocal conditions. I Vinti was to be the comprehensivetitle of a series, planned on the lines of the RougonMacquart. It was to deal with the weak who had fallen bylifes wayside, men who had lost courage, who bowed theirheads passively and fatalistically. Its central thesis is that. Phoio by Giacomo Brogi, Florence MATILDE iJERAO Literature 65 mankind is not divided into the traditional classes but onlyinto victors and vanquished, that all must either be hammeror anvil. This idea is not new in literature, but it has notbeen treated quite in Vergas manner and certainly not inVergas milieu. The first of the series was Malavoglia,narrating the misfortunes pursuing a family of poor was followed by Mastro Don Gesualdo, a vigorouspicture of the new bourgeoisie that is arising in Sicily, thatclassic land of nobles and peasants, where until recently therewas no middle-class. It traces the social ascent of a manof the people and the decadence of a noble house, who hadbecome his victims. Both novels are penetrated with apotent spirit of justice, and are so really remarkable that itis deeply to be deplored that they met with so little financialsuccess, that the author abandoned their continuation andreturned instead to the more profi
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