Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-11-06

ne uuIIuS IuOo0 years, ot1u SOlLS 6N6L
say tnaL MS sinister appearance led the
people 10 regard him with awe, anC
mat The women would point to him :4S
that man who goes to hell and then
comes back to tell what he has seen.
His son, Piero, settled in Verona, AMI
though his direct line became extinct
in 1909, the blood of the divine poet
sUlII nOWs IN the veins OF the Marches
Serego Alighieri, one of the noblest
families OF the city.
1t would be impossible to describe
the art treasures of Verona. Every
where may be seen works of the Vene7
tian, Paduan and Veronese schools
while the architecture of the city bears
the impress of such masters as Sanmi-
chele and Fra Giocanda.
The amphitheatre, erected by DiOcle-
tan in A. d. 290, stands as a mOnu-
ment of the Roman occupation.
This vast pile of grey limestone
affords seats for 10000 spectators.
1t appears that Roman EmperOrs
were not the only rulers who Loved the
sports, for an Emperor of Austria is
said to have enjoyed bull fight from
ore of it's tiers, while an inscription
on the second story commentaries the
visit of Napoleon and the reservations
carried out by his orders. Strange how
he had not stolen.
Some assert that the Amphitheatre
was the abode of Theodore, or, as he
is better known in German lore, Die
trich Won Bern. The castle of this
Nibelungen hero is on the other side of
the Adige, so before crossing the river
it would be we'll to visit the house of
Capulets
In the southeastern section of the
town, ON the via San Sebastino, can Oe
seen a gateway surmounted by a hat
tht indicates the home of Juliet's pa
rents A broken support is all that
remains Of the balcony, and as you
look UP at it you realize for the first
time the truth of Romeo's words when
he entreats:
o, speak again, bright angel, for thou
art
AS glorious to this night, being DER my
head,
AS a winged messenger Of heaven.
The balcony was indeed sky-high
and, oh, disillusion of disillusions, it
overhngu the street! So you wonder
what Juliet meant by saying, '1he or
heard walls are high and hard to
climb"
But it is dissertation to speak lightly
On such subject, therefore Danish all
irreverent thoughts and make the pill
grimage to the suppressed Franciscan
monastery, where they claim Juliet
was buried.
After entering the gate you are con-
Quoted along an old garden walk,
where, for the sake of romance, you try
to be oblivious to the garments drying
upon the shrubbery cit is always wash
day upon the Continent.)
Finally you reach a crude little
chapel, to see medieval sarcophagus,
and when you lookin you are profound
ly disguised to see that hundreds of
over credulous admirers have filed the
coffin with their visiting cards.
The obseQuies that I for thee will
keep
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and
weep.
Baedecker insists that there is no
ground for believing the Capluets we're
buried here, but Lord Byron says in
one of his letters, '"The Veronese are
tenacious to a degree of truth of Jul
let's story, insisting on the fact and
giving the date as 1902 and showing a
tomb. 1t is a plain, open and desolate
conventional garedn, once a cemetery,
now ruined to the very graves. The
situation struck me as very appropri-
ate to the legend, being blighted as
their love-"
If you are a practical American,
however, you will laugh, with Mrs.
Jameson, when she tells you that she
once met gentleman in Italy who |
wore a fragment of Juliet's tomb set in
his ring.
After the return to the hotel, on |
questioning a porter, he seemed dub
ious about the burial place, but gave
the pith of the tragedy in very broken
English. 81 do not tink dey die dere,
but dey do say he love her, she love
MIN, dere faders would not let dem
marry, so dey bot go dere and make
demselves dead. e. L. NJ, in Balti- !
more Sun
ONE MINUTE ROMANCE.