Verismo (Italian literature)

found: Britannica Micro.(verismo: literary realism as it developed in Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; separate entry for verismo as style of Italian opera writing that flourished in the last decade of the 19th century)

found: Collier's encyc.(verismo: name given to a literary movement in late 19th-century Italian letters)

found: Am. heritage dict., 3rd ed.(verism: realism in art and literature; verismo: 1. verism. 2. artistic movement of the late 19th century, originating in Italy and influential especially in grand opera, marked by the use of common, everyday themes often treated in a melodramatic manner)

found: Dict. literary terms and literary theory, 3rd ed.(verism: doctrine that literature or art should represent the truth (reality), however disagreeable that truth might be; verismo: literary movement in Italy which occurred late in the 19th century and early in the 20th; derived in part from movement of naturalism in France; the term verismo was also applied to the rather violent and melodramatic operas composed by Puccini and Mascagni, ca. 1900)