In 1884 he participated in the Esposizione Generale Italiana in Turin with a painting inspired by La storia di una capinera by Giovanni Verga.
Tasca's next opera to be performed onstage was La lupa, with a libretto by Giovanni Verga.
Besides, he was en engaged liberal writer and essayist, and translated the novelist Giovanni Verga from the Italian into German.
While attending classes towards a Diplomes d’Etudes Superieures with a thesis on the writings of Sicilian peasant-realist novelist Giovanni Verga, Ryerson involved himself in communist activities.
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Giovanni Verga's novel I Malavoglia ("The House by the Medlar Tree") is set in Aci Trezza.
Her work has been highly regarded by Luigi Capuana and Giovanni Verga plus some younger writers such as Enrico Thovez, Pietro Pancrazi, Renato Serra, and later until today by Sardinian writers such as Sergio Atzeni, Giulio Angioni, Salvatore Mannuzzu, starters of the so-called Sardinian Literary Spring.
The movie is adapted from Giovanni Verga's novel I Malavoglia (1881) (The House by the Medlar Tree) for the screen.