“There is no world without Verona walls But purgatory, torture, hell itself Hence banished is banish’d from the world And world’s exile is death” Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
The good thing about travelling to this region of Italy and not staying within the confines of the Venetian Lagoon is that there was the opportunity to go beyond the watery city and see so much more and today our plan was to travel west and visit the ancient and famous city of Verona.
Posted in Europe, History, Italy, Literature, World Heritage
Tagged Life, Padova, Roman Amphitheatre, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Travel, Verona
“Ever a shadow, he disappears, all but utterly, from 1585 to 1592….There is not a more tempting void in literary history, nor more eager hands to fill it” Bill Bryson on Shakespeare.
It is an interesting fact that thirteen of the thirty-seven plays of William Shakespeare were set either completely or partly in Italy and if we rule out the ten English history plays (which naturally have to be set in England) then half of the remainder of the major works are set in the Italian states and no one knows for sure just why.
Posted in History, Hotels, Italy, Literature, World Heritage
Tagged Francesco do Mosto, Life, Padova, Shakespeare, Travel, Venice, Verona
Although the Sparrow and the Starling are on the conservation red list in the United Kingdom it is interesting that by comparison they are doing rather well in the United States.
Although the Sparrow and the Starling are on the conservation red list in the United Kingdom it is interesting that by comparison they are doing rather well in the United States.
Posted in History, Travel, USA
Tagged Eugene Schieffelin, Shakespeare, Sir Archibald Geikie, Starling, Starlings in the USA, The Birds of Shakespeare, Thomas Austin
Have Bag, Will Travel 