Verona: Considerations for a 17th Century City-State

O, Fair Verona... In fair Verona, where many scenes are laid, where ancient grudges break and new mutiny, makes civil blood & civil hands unclean. But such is the tale of vapid feckless youth, and youth of means at that! You've no such privilege, vagrant! And such, Verona is far from fair! What is Verona? A city, of course. But who could dare think to know the city? Its history is written by the p…