Scapigliatura is the name of an artistic movement that developed in Italy after the Risorgimento period. The movement included poets, writers, musicians, painters and sculptors. The term Scapigliatura
Emilio Praga, Carlo Dossi & Luigi Conconi in a late 19th-century photo.
Verismo was an Italian literary movement which peaked between approximately 1875 and the early 1900s. Sicilian writers Giovanni Verga, Luigi Capuana and Federico De Roberto were its main exponents. Ca
Illustration for the Treves edition of Giovanni Vergas's Vita dei campi, Milan, 1897
Luigi Capuana, one of the main exponents of verismo in literature, and the author of the novel Giacinta, generally regarded as the "manifesto" of the movement.