5 CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT
ROMEO AND JULIET
THE REAL AUTHOR OF
'Romeo and Juliet' is Shakespeare's most famous play. Yet he is not the original author of the story of the star-crossed lovers...
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This is where the original story of Romeo and Juliet was first written over a period of 12 years in the 16th century...
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'Romeo and Juliet' was originally a novel published in 1530 in Venice...
It was written by Luigi da Porto - a nobleman from the nearby city of Vicenza...
Luigi found inspiration in his own unhappy love story, a local legend that he heard from his archer, and...
Two medieval castles that he could see from his window as he was writing...
Although his novel inspired Shakespeare's work, nowadays Luigi da Porto is largely forgotten...
You can visit his tomb in his native Vicenza - a pretty Northern Italian city...
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