THE " PALACE "OF THE CAPULETS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13227, 22 September 1908, Page 7

THE " PALACE "OF THE CAPULETS.

• United Press. Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, September 20. The "Palace" of the Capulets at Verona has been completely destroyed by fire. The romantic need shed no tears over the destruction of what they may imagine to have been the stately home' of Juliet. The guide-books glorify iti by calling it a palace, but in reality the building was a rather squalidlooking, three-storied house, in a row of similar houses, situated in the Via' Capello, and inhabited by poor people. It had a marble tablet identifying it as the house of Juliet's parents, the Capuletti. but it would require a great stretch of tho imagination to think of the balcony scene taking place there. Verona does too well out of the immortality of Romeo and Juliet to enquire too closely into such mattem. Juliet's tomb is also shown to the sentimental visitor. The one shown in the eighteenth century was destroyed, but the present one, in the language of a guide-book, "does, just as well." Before it was elevated to this position of distinction it did duty as a washing trough.