The beautiful city of Verona in northeastern Italy is a popular tourist destination owing to its ancient heritage and the Roman Arena.
The city of Verona is also the setting for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a tragic story of romance that took place during the rule of the Scaliger family.
However, Shakespeare was not the first one to write the tale of the two lovers. Captain Vicenza Luigi da Porto wrote the story in 1524 based on an oral tradition told by an archer named Pellegrino da Verona.
The story was rewritten in 1562 and 1569 by English writers Arthur Brooke and William Painter respectively. Since Shakespeare never visited Italy, most historians believed that he wrote his immortal version of Romeo and Juliet based on the books written by Brooke and Painter.
You can visit Verona today to relive the beauty of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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