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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2015-08-11 07:47 am

verismo

verismo (vuh-RIZ-moh) - n., realism, verism; esp., late 19th century Italian movements in opera, art, literature, et cet. that advocated using everyday life and actions in artistic works.


This is, essentially, a calque of realism in Italian: vero meaning true/real.

---L.