Giovanni Verga

Writer

Date of birth : 09/01/1840

Date of death : 01/27/1922

City of birth : Catania, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies [now Catania, Sicily, Italy]

Giovanni Verga was born on September 2, 1840 in Catania, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies [now Catania, Sicily, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Fatal Desire (1953), Tigre reale (1916) and Cavalleria rusticana (1916). He died on January 27, 1922 in Catania, Sicily, Italy.