About the book: 1987 / In the short story with the characteristic title "War of the Saints" Verga shows with a great deal of humor how the veneration of saints by peasants only in their own parishes leads to bloody clashes and family quarrels. Verga’s anti-clerical position is already visible in the title of the short story, which in the manuscript bore an even more openly satirical title: “Let the holy boot be glorified!” Verga preserved these words in the speech of one of the characters: “Glory to my boots! Hail the holy boot!»