Every detail needs to be carefully placed in "I Pagliacci."

"The naturalistic ideas started to influence the unified Italian intellectual world around 1870 and being established since the debates about Realism that happened in the previous decade, which gave birth to Verismo (the term is a derivation of vero, in the reale sense = 'real', 'reality'). Although some French postulates adopted the movement, the Verismo had a regionalistic character, focusing more in portraying rural environments and the peasantry than the urban spaces where most social classes lived." (Fabris)