[Gutenberg 48007] • Rustic Chivalry (Cavalleria Rusticana): Melodrama in One Act

This edition features:

• A new English translation

• Parallel Italian and English texts

• Afterword

• Translator's Notes

This is the most famous modern short story written in Italian, adapted for both theatre and opera. One of the many short stories that Giovanni Verga wrote about country life in his native Sicily, Cavalleria Rusticana is terse, fast-moving, dramatic, passionate and somehow extremely real.

Our unique parallel text presents the original Italian on the left page, the English translation on the right, with sentences and paragraphs aligned for easy reading and reference. Parallel texts of this kind are a very valuable learning resource, as they make the foreign language content immediately comprehensible.