Does love story exist in the world that mainly incarnates the sense of ardent romanticism more than the world-famous, love between Romeo and Juliet? Probably not. And probably not everyone knows that in the famous love story of the two lovers par excellence there is also a little of Vicenza, actually a lot ....
The tradition and the oral reference collected in a writing of 1524, by the Vicentino poet and military leader Luigi da Poro, who has retired to his villa of Montorso (village close to Montecchio Maggiore) after a serious injury suffered in a battle during the War of the of Cambrai League, narrates the love story of two Veronese lovers in the 1300s: Juliet of the Capuleti lineage and Romeo of the Montecchi lineage, and of the implacable hate between the two families.
The first brief encounters between the two lovers were, as is well known, quite difficult and complicated, especially in that short phase where the two heads of the two families were given by Cangrande Della Scala, the task of managing the rocky hills of Montecchio Maggiore, in the hope that the vicinity of the castles and coordination of the commando could eliminate the existing friction. The facts that followed are very famous: the crowing of their dream of love in Verona with their accomplice Lorenzo, friar confessor of Juliet . Romeo’s escape to Mantova after the killing in a duel of Juliet’s cousin Tibaldo, Juliet’s feigned death in the hope of reaching Romeo from whom she could not be far apart. Romeo’s desperation and suicide believing Juliet dead. Juliet’s awakening heard Romeo’s last words of love and choice to die together as she was not able to live without him. At the end of the 1500’s W. Shakespeare becomes acquainted with the exciting story and his genius turns it into a tragedy that still transmits feelings of undying love that has made the romantic and tragic vicissitude known all over the world.