Sparrow

Author

Giovanni Verga

Original Work

Sparrow

Translators

Lucy Gordan·Frances Frenaye

Language

English

Year

1997

Publisher

Italica Press

Country

United States

Pages

128

ISBN

9780934977425

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SET IN and around Catania, Sicily, on the verge of the Italian Risorgimento, Sparrow, first published as Storia di una capinera in 1870, tells the story of Maria, the daughter of a low-level bureaucrat, forced into the convent by economic and social forces. After a brief — and almost imaginary — flirtation with the son of neighbors, Maria is sent back into the convent, there to go from disappointed love, to broken health, madness and death. Verga creates a tour-de-force of emotional intensity that represents one of the late flowerings of the Romantic movement and opens the door to the Realism of the late nineteenth century. Translated by Lucy Gordan & Frances Frenaye. Volponi, Paolo Last Act in Urbino WHEN TERRORIST BOMBS explode in a bank in Milan on December 12, 1969 they raise the curtain on a cast of unlikely players. This satireof Italian social and political contrasts uses a wry wit and keen sense of detail to ask what, ultimately, is more real: the images of distant conflicts, allegiances and celebrities that flicker on and off the TV screen? Or the loves, memories, and loyalties of a single lifetime? First English translation, by Peter N. Pedroni, ofIl sipario ducale.— Google Books