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Mastro-don Gesualdo is an Italian novel written by Giovanni Verga, published in 1889. The novel is divided into four parts, each of which is made up of several chapters.\r\nMastro-don Gesualdo deals with Gesualdo Motta, a man who focuses his life on his economic assets instead of personal relationships, ending up crushed by the empty life he has created. Gesualdo lives in Vizzini (Sicily) during the Italian unification.\r\nThe protagonist, Gesualdo Motta, is a peasant who becomes a wealthy landowner through hard work and judicious business practices, but he cannot rise socially despite his marriage to the noble Bianca Trao. And, although the Trao family is itself impoverished, its members cannot regard Gesualdo as anything but a peasant. The decadence of the unbending Trao family is repeatedly contrasted with the honesty, strength, vitality, ingenuity, and ambition of Gesualdo. His lack of understanding concerning his isolated social position is the source of his tragedy.