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A stamp to remember Giovanni Verga

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A stamp was issued today, valid for ordinary mail, to celebrate the centenary of the death of the writer Giovanni Verga. The vignette of the postal value shows a portrait of the writer, a work by Amedeo Bianchi made around 1913 and kept in the Casa Museo di Verga in Catania. The illustrative bulletin accompanying the issue contains texts by: Nello Musumeci, President of the Sicilian Region; Alberto Samonà, Councilor for Cultural Heritage and Sicilian Identity; Gabriella Alfieri, President of the Scientific Council of the Verga Foundation. The latter recalls that Verga died on January 27, 1922 in Catania – where he was born on September 2, 1840. and that Verga was a great writer and playwright of contemporary Italy: head of the realism school, he was also a witness – only apparently detached – of almost a century of Italian political and cultural life, from the enterprise of the Thousand to the Great War. Among his most famous novels are remembered Story of a capinera, The Malavoglias, Master don Gesualdo; the production of numerous short stories and stories is also impressive.

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