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verismo
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n. An artistic movement, from 19th century Italian literature and opera, in which rural and everyday people and themes were treated in an often melodramatic manner
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Verismo , which may be italicised in English as a foreign word, or not, means "realism" in Italian , and is used in English for 19th century realist movements in the arts in Italy: Verismo (music) in opera Verismo (painting) Verismo (literature)
Usage examples of verismo.
It is an amusing illustration of how the whirligig of time brings its revenges that the spirit of verismo, masquerading as a desire for historical accuracy, has restored the period of the Dumas book,--that is, restored it in name, but not in fact,--with the result, in New York and London at least, of making the dress of the opera more absurd than ever.