Mastro-don Gesualdo
Photographic portrait of Giovanni Verga | |
| Author | Giovanni Verga |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mastro-don Gesualdo |
| Translator | Mary A. Craig |
| Language | Italian |
Publication date | 1889 |
| Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 1893 |
Original text | Mastro-don Gesualdo at Italian Wikisource |
Mastro-don Gesualdo is an Italian novel written by Giovanni Verga, published in 1889. The first English edition, Master Don Gesualdo (1893), was translated by Mary A. Craig and was published in London by J. P. Osgood, McIlvaine publishers. Giovanni Cecchetti, in the introduction to his translation of the 1979 edition, writes that it "is generally regarded as a masterpiece".