Antonino Gandolfo was an Italian painter.
Self portrait, 1890
Temptation (La tentazione),1880
The expelled woman (L'espulsa), 1880
Forced music (Musica forzata), 1880
Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca was an Italian realist (verista) writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, especially the short story and later play Cavalleria rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia.
Giovanni Verga
Portrait of Verga, by Antonino Gandolfo.
Verga's house-museum in Catania
Photo by Verga of Sicilian couple who worked his property in 1897