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Home-museum of Giovanni Verga

Inside the home of the writer

Home-museum of Giovanni Verga

Giovanni Verga (Catania, 1840 - Catania, 1922) was a Sicilian writer and playwright, who in many of his works has beautifully recounted men and events of his island.
Housed in a nineteenth-century building is this house where the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga spent his childhood and lived for long periods of his life.
Inside are: over 2600 books loved by the Sicilian writer; some photographic collections that mainly depict the writer's family; some manuscripts; the reproduction of the bedroom, of the dining room ...

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