Ponte della Vittoria (Victory Bridge) over the Adige River in Verona (Italy)

“Le sue magnificenze conosciute
saranno ancora, sì che ‘suoi nemici
non ne potrai tener le lingue mute.”

"His magnificences will still be known, 

so that you will not be able 

to keep his enemies’ tongues mute."

In The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri, about Verona

Ponte Pietra (Stone Bridge) crossing the Adige River in Verona (Italy)

Sleeping all alone
You wake up with a bottle in your hands
No sound of serenade 'cause we both know we lost our game
I was always high on loving you
Before the romance turned to drama
Like Romeo and Juliet once before
We are lost in Verona

Lyrics of Verona

by Koit Toome

Ponte Pietra across the Adige River in Verona (Italy)

I’d like to sing of Verona, at some point
in the night, when the moon rises:
when the woods that sleep but seem to run
in the dreams of boats following their fortune
behind the waters of the Adige, which goes
seeking for countries and cities…
And when all the whisper is over
mirror it down in the Adige, from the bridges,
and fix it myself, wall by wall,
strong in the circle of the mountains…

Berto Barbarini

Scaligero Bridge across the Adige River in Verona (Italy)

Curse God and die: what better hope than this?
He hath forgotten thee in all the bliss
Of his gold city, and eternal day' -
Nay peace: behind my prison's blinded bars
I do possess what none can take away,
My love and all the glory of the stars.

At Verona

Oscar Wilde

Scaligero Bridge across the Adige River in Verona (Italy)

Dos antiguas familias,
De nobleza pareja,
en la bella Verona,
desde donde contamos
avivan fuegos
de sus querellas viejas
y la sangre civil
mancha civiles manos

Fragmento de Romeo y Julieta

William Shakespeare

Ponte Pietra (Stone Bridge) crossing the Adige River in Verona (Italy)

“There is no world for me outside the walls of Verona, except purgatory, torture, and hell itself. So to be banished from Verona is like being banished from the world, and being banished from the world is death.”

From Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Scaligero Bridge over the Adige River in Verona (Italy)

Su 'l castello di Verona

batte il sole a mezzogiorno

da la Chiusa al pian rintrona 

solitario un suon di corno

Giosué Carducci

Stone Bridge over the Adige River in Verona (Italy) depicted by Aldo Raimondi

"Pleasant Verona! With its beautiful old palaces, and charming country in the distance, seen from terrace walks, and stately, balustraded alleries. With its Roman gates, still spanning the fair street, and casting, on the sunlight of to-day, the shade of fifteen hundred years ago. With its marble-fitted churches, lofty towers, rich architecture, and quaint old quiet horoughfares, where shouts of Montagues and Capulets once resounded"

Charles Dickens