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Capuana

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Capuana (Italian) [kaˈpwaːna]
n
(Biographies / Capuana, Luigi (1839-1915) M, Italian, WRITING: novelist, THEATRE: dramatist, WRITING: critic) Luigi. 1839-1915, Italian realist novelist, dramatist, and critic. His works include the novel Giacinta (1879) and the play Malia (1895)


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20) In an allusion to the topos of female hysteria that traverses nineteenth-century works by Tarchetti, Verga, and Capuana, and was given a pseudo-scientific formulation in Lombroso's positivist anthropology, the novel explains Catena's gesture as the action of a "picciotta un poco originale" (38), a twenty-five years old spinster who has disfigured the portrait because ir resembles the face of her fiance, Giovanni Interdonato, a man whom she has only seen five times.
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Crystal Crawford added 11 kills, and Michelle Capuana had nine kills and four service aces for Moorpark.
 
 
 
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