LITERATURE QUESTIONS
BRITISH LITERATURE
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Rome
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Florence
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Verona
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Venecia
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Detailed explanation-1: -Verona is a city in northeastern Italy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Verona is the setting of virtually the whole of Romeo and Juliet. It is used as the setting in three of Shakespeare’s plays – The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Romeo and Juliet – but it is unknown if Shakespeare ever visited the city.
Detailed explanation-3: -The historic city of Verona was founded in the 1st century B.C. It particularly flourished under the rule of the Scaliger family in the 13th and 14th centuries and as part of the Republic of Venice from the 15th to 18th centuries.
Detailed explanation-4: -Verona, city, episcopal see, Veneto regione, northern Italy. It lies at the foot of the Lessini Mountains, 65 miles (105 km) west of Venice, and is half-encircled by the Adige River.
Detailed explanation-5: -’ The audiences attending Romeo and Juliet were not disappointed. It is set in Verona, Italy, which is unbearably hot in summer. It is at midday on a very hot day that the central action, the death of Mercutio, takes place.