Naturalismo e verismo. By PIERLUIGI PELLINI. Florence: La Nuova Italia. 1998. 175 pp. 15,000 lire.
Pierluigi Pellini here attempts the first systematic comparison of French Naturalist and Italian verista narrative since Mario Pomilio's pioneering Dal naturalismo al verismo (Naples: Liguori, 1962). Where Pomilio, however, concentrated on programmatic and theoretical writings, Pellini follows the most innovative recent scholars of European Naturalism in defining both Naturalist and ...