1. Luigi Capuana was an Italian author and journalist and one of the most important members of the verist movement.
12 Facts About Luigi Capuana
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Luigi Capuana was a contemporary of Giovanni Verga, both having been born in the province of Catania within a year of each other.
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Luigi Capuana was one of the first Italian authors influenced by the works of Emile Zola, French author and creator of naturalism.
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Luigi Capuana was the author of plays, stories, novels and various other theatrical works.
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Luigi Capuana was born in Mineo, in the Province of Catania.
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Luigi Capuana's family was wealthy, and owned property in the area.
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Luigi Capuana abandoned this in 1860 in order to take part in Garibaldi's Risorgimento as the secretary of the Secret Committee of Insurrection in Mineo, and later as the chancellor of the nascent civic council.
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In 1861 Luigi Capuana released the legendary drama Garibaldi in three cantos, published in Catania by Galatola.
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In 1868 Luigi Capuana returned to Sicily planning a brief stay, but his father's death and economic hardship anchored him to the island.
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Luigi Capuana was especially inspired by "Dopo la Laurea", an essay by positivist and Hegelian doctor Angelo Camillo De Meis, who had developed a theory on the evolution and death of literary genres.
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In 1902 Luigi Capuana moved to Catania to lecture lexicography and stylistics at the local university.
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Luigi Capuana died in Catania on November 29,1915, shortly after Italy entered the First World War.