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ve⋅ris⋅mo

  [vuh-riz-moh; It. ve-reez-maw]
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the use of everyday life and actions in artistic works: introduced into opera in the early 1900s in reaction to contemporary conventions, which were seen as artificial and untruthful.
Origin:
1905–10; < It: realism, equiv. to ver(o) true (< L vērus) + -ismo -ism
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ve·ris·mo   (və-rĭz'mō)   
n.  

  1. Verism.

  2. An artistic movement of the late 19th century, originating in Italy and influential especially in grand opera, marked by the use of rural characters and common, everyday themes often treated in a melodramatic manner.


[Italian; see verism.]
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verismo

(Italian: "realism"), literary realism as it developed in Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its primary exponents were the Sicilian novelists Luigi Capuana and Giovanni Verga. The realist movement arose in Europe after the French Revolution and the realist influence reached Capuana and Verga particularly through the writings of Balzac and Zola in France and of the scapigliatura milanese (see scapigliatura, "Milanese bohemianism") group in Italy. Verismo's overriding aim was the objective presentation of life, usually of the lower classes, using direct, unadorned language, explicit descriptive detail, and realistic dialogue.

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