Famous citizens of Catania
Giovanni Verga was born in Catania in 1840, when Sicily formed part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. From a family of landowning minor nobility, Verga was sent to the University of Catania, but found himself unable to resist focusing on his writing while he was meant to be studying law. He even took the money his father had given him to pay for his studies to publish his work – “The Carbonari of the Mountain”.
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