Percoto, Caterina (1812–1887)
Percoto, Caterina (1812–1887)
Italian short-story writer. Born 1812 in Soleschiano sul Natisone, Friuli, Italy; died 1887 in Rome, Italy.
Never married but looked after family land and was involved with local community; wrote realist works and often in dialect, including Racconti (1958), Ventisei racconti vecchi e nuovi (1878), Novelle scelte (1880), La matrigna (1881), and Novelle popolari edite e inedite (1883); also wrote preface to Giovanni Verga's Storia di una capinera (1871); work republished as Scritti friulani: L'inno della fame ed altri racconti (1945).
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