Verona
Etymology
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A city straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital city of the province of the same name. - c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act PROLOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- Two households, both alike in dignity, // In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, // From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, // Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
- 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread , chapter 6:
- ...it was nearly the middle of August before he went out to meet Harriet in the Tirol. He found his sister in a dense cloud five thousand feet above the sea, chilled to the bone, overfed, bored, and not at all unwilling to be fetched away. [...] They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. And the train which had picked them at sunrise out of a waste of glaciers and hotels was waltzing at sunset round the walls of Verona.
A province in Veneto, in northern. - A village in Illinois.
- A census-designated place in Kentucky.
- A city in Mississippi.
- A city/and/town in Missouri.
- A township in New Jersey.
- A town in New York.
- A city/and/village in North Dakota.
- A village in Ohio.
- A borough in Pennsylvania.
- A city/and/town in Wisconsin.
- Surname.
- A female given name.
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