now a museum dedicated to the author. The Casa-Museo Giovanni Verga is located on the second floor of a generally unimposing 18th-century palace. The furnishings were those present at the time of his death, including his large personal library. Also in Catania, a performance stage that often performs works of local artists, the Teatro Verga, was founded in 1969 in a former movie theater located on Via Giuseppe Fava #34. In 1920 he was appointed Senator of the Kingdom (Senatore del Regno) for life (ad vitam). He died of a cerebral thrombosis in 1922. He was an atheist. In 2022 the official Verga 100 event was launched, dedicated to the centenary of the writer, with many events from Palermo to Milan, from theater to musical performances, Cinema, and Book Festival Bibliography Novels Love and Homeland (1856–1857) (Amore e patria) Carbonari of the Mountain (1861–1862) (I carbonari della montagna) On the Lagoons (1862–1863) (Sulle lagune) A Sinner (1866) (Una peccatrice) History of a Blackcap (1871) (Storia di una capinera) Eva (1873) (Eva) Eros (1875) (Eros) Royal Tiger (1875) (Tigre reale) The House by the Medlar-Tree (1881) (I Malavoglia) Elena's Husband (1882) (Il marito di Elena) Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889) (Mastro-don Gesualdo) From Yours to Mine (1905) (Dal tuo al mio) Short stories Nedda (1874) The She-Wolf (1874) (La Lupa) Spring and other Stories (1877) (Primavera e altri racconti) Spring (Primavera) The Tail of the Devil (La coda del diavolo) X (X) Certain Subjects (Certi argomenti) The Stories of the Trezza's Castle (Le storie del castello di Trezza) Red Evil Hair (1878) (Rosso Malpelo) The Life of the Fields (1880) (Vita dei campi) Rustic Chivalry (also translated as Rustic Honour) (Cavalleria rusticana) Jeli the Shepherd (Jeli il pastore) Little Novels of Sicily (1883) (Novelle rusticane) translated by D.H. Lawrence (1925) His Reverence (Il reverendo) So Much for the King (Cos'è il re) Don Licciu Papa (Don Licciu papa) The Mystery Play (Il mistero) Malaria (Malaria) The Orphans (Gli orfani) Property (La roba) Story of St. Joseph's Ass (Storia dell'asino di S. Giuseppe) Black Bread (Pane nero) The Gentry (I galantuomini) Liberty (Libertà) Across the Sea (Di là del mare) References Further reading Gesù Sebastiano L'Etna nel cinema. Un vulcano di celluloide, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania, 2005 Nunzio Zago, Racconto della letteratura siciliana, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 2000 Scritti su Verga, di Luigi Pirandello e Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, prefazione di Giuseppe Giarrizzo, Giuseppe Maimone