IN be;autiful old verona 



Photo by Emil P. Albrecht 



Where the Piazza del Sisrnori passes into the Via Santa Maria Antica, and the tombs 

 ot the bcahgen, the Signori for whom the piazza was named and who built the palaces 

 about It The tombs are of the fourteenth century (see page 565). "It was in the days of 

 he Scaligeri— that IS, the rulers of the della Scala family— that Romeo and Juliet lived and 

 loved and died btern history pours much cold water upon this romance, but it will not 

 down, and hundreds of visitors to Verona who find no time for the Arena yet make a oil- 

 grimage to Juliet's tomb" (see text, page 569) 



564 



