ROMEO AND JULIET
A MUSEUM IN VERONA
Manuscripts and other treasures relating to Romeo and Juliet, whose story Is immoi'taiised in the Shakespearean tragedy, are to be gathered and preserved in a museum to be founded by order of Premier Mussolini, says a message from Verona to the "Christian Science Monitor."
Material for the museum is already reaching Verona from many parts of Italy and even from other countries. These include plastic and pictorial representations of the story, operatic scores of the drama, books and commentaries, ancient and modern.
A valuable copy of the original sixteenth century "novella" by Matteo Bandelli from which Shakespeare took his plot for "Romeo and Juliet" is to be exhibited.
The museum is to be erected outside the city gates. It is in a beautiful garden near the River Adige on the site of an old Franciscan church built In 1230 by Ranieri Zeno, later Doge of Venice. The church has disappecred but remains of the Franciscan convent still survive. Many authorities claim this to have been the convent of the celebrated Friar Lorenzo da Reggio, Shakespeare's Friar Laurence, who blessed the secret marriage of "True and Faithful Juliet" and her Romeo.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 133, 8 June 1939, Page 12
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197ROMEO AND JULIET Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 133, 8 June 1939, Page 12
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