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Luigi Capuana

1839 - 1915

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Luigi Capuana (May 28, 1839 – November 29, 1915) was an Italian author and journalist and one of the main exponents of Verismo. He was a contemporary of Giovanni Verga, both having been born in the province of Catania within a year of each other. He was also one of the first Italian authors influenced by the works of Émile Zola, French author and creator of naturalism. His critical theories on naturalism envisaged the ultimate fusion of the novel into a purely scientific, impersonal, case-history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Capuana is the 3,803rd most popular writer (down from 3,749th in 2019), the 3,143rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,100th in 2019) and the 217th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among writers, Luigi Capuana ranks 3,803 out of 7,302. Before him are Irakli Abashidze, Marianne Moore, Laurens van der Post, Ari Behn, Farrukhi Sistani, and Wang Bo. After him are Ricardo Piglia, Alberto Savinio, Claude Aveline, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Bill Bryson, and Émile Souvestre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Luigi Capuana ranks 68. Before him are Jakob Hurt, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Marianne Hainisch, James Crafts, Ludwig Anzengruber, and Jane Morris. After him are Friedrich Gernsheim, Nelson A. Miles, Pavlo Chubynsky, Albert Bernhard Frank, Caterina Volpicelli, and Julius Petersen. Among people deceased in 1915, Luigi Capuana ranks 80. Before him are Ferdinand Sarrien, Karl Staaff, Emil Rathenau, Rupert Brooke, Charles Walter De Vis, and Otto von Emmich. After him are Jerzy Żuławski, Ruben Sevak, Pascual Orozco, Johann Joseph Abert, Siamanto, and Mubarak Al-Sabah.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Capuana ranks 3,144 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825), Tommaso Tittoni (1855), Antonio Di Pietro (1950), Sergio Rossi (1935), Giulio Alenio (1582), and Castruccio Castracani (1281). After him are Sergio Martino (1938), Bruno Mattei (1931), Valentino Fioravanti (1764), Francesco Alidosi (1455), Benedetto I Zaccaria (1240), and Pupi Avati (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Luigi Capuana ranks 217. Before him are Julius Obsequens (400), Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791), Arator (500), Teresa de Lauretis (1938), Antonio Beccadelli (1394), and Ranieri de' Calzabigi (1714). After him are Francesco de Sanctis (1817), Titus Calpurnius Siculus (290), Girolamo de Rada (1814), Leonidas of Tarentum (-320), Valerio Massimo Manfredi (1942), and Ugo Betti (1892).

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