Il Marchese di Roccaverdina

Il Marchese di Roccaverdina is a novel by Luigi Capuana, a key figure in the Italian literary movement known as verismo (realism). Verismo aimed for an objective presentation of life, often focusing on the lower classes, using direct language and detailed descriptions.12

Capuana's novel Il Marchese di Roccaverdina, published in 1901, is noted as an excellent study of guilt. Capuana, influenced by French naturalists like Émile Zola, strived for objectivity in his writing, sometimes to the point of minimizing overt emotional expression. His work, alongside that of his friend Giovanni Verga, helped define the verismo movement in Italian literature.21