Choose your language: Currencies: US Dollar   Specials   Search   Contact Us   Create an account   Customer Login Shopping Cart now in your cart  0 items     Fiction     Non-Fiction     Crime and Law     Italian American     Children, Young Adults     Health and Medical     Reference, IPL     Military     Music     Sports     Movie Rights Availability About this title: The Mariquis of Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana 9780937832554 Item price:  $18.95   Book Description: The Mariquis of Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana, Translated by Santi Buscemi Paperback, ISBN 9780937832554 $18.95; E-Book, ISBN 9780937832561 $9.99 A masterpiece of Italian literature, The Mariquis of Roccaverdina (1901) is at once the best and most representative opus of the Sicilian veristi (naturalists), who wrote in the late nineteenth century. An engrossing and moving story, the novel is a psychological tour de force, which analyzes the life of a Sicilian aristocrat forced to choose between his passion for a beautiful peasant woman and the demands of a moribund social structure that preclude his marrying below his station. Attempting to resolve the dilemma, he makes a decision that leads to a life tortured by jealousy, guilt, and self-recrimination. Copyright © 2009 Branden Books Powered by CB Web Design