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VERGA, GIOVANNI (1840- ), Italian novelist, was born at Catania, Sicily. In 1865 he published Storia di una peccalrice and / Carbonari della montagna, but his literary reputation was established by his Eva and Storia di una capinera (1869). Other novels follow ...

VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA (1503-1536), Spanish soldier and poet, was born at Toledo on the 6th of February 1503. His father, Garcilaso (Garcias Laso or Garcilasso) de la Vega, was counsellor of state to Ferdinand and Isabella, and for some time their ambassador at

VERGE (Lat. iiirga, a rod), originally a staff denoting authority, whence (from the ceremony in swearing fealty to a lord) the sense of a measurement, and so boundary or border, of land, or generally a margin of space. In architecture, a verge is the edge of t

... with that kingdom by Prussia. See Fiirbringer, Die Stadt Emden in Gegenwart und Vergangenheit (Emden, 1892).

... ntains of the Lower Engadine) (Bern, 1898) ; E. Lechner, Das Oberengadin in der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (Leipzig, 1900) ; A. Lorria and E. A. Mattel, Le Massif de la Bernina (complete monograph on the Upper Engadine, with full bibliography) (Ziirich, 1894) ...

... nd was, with Hanover, annexed by Prussia in 1866. See Ostenberg, A us Verden' s Vergangenheit (Stade, 1876).