Luigi Da Porto [SEP] place of death
Luigi Da Porto
Luigi Da Porto (Vicenza, 1485 – May 10, 1529) was an Italian writer and storiographer, better known as the author of the novel "Novella novamente ritrovata" with the story of Romeo and Juliet, later reprised by William Shakespeare for his famous drama.
Da Porto wrote the novel in his villa in Montorso Vicentino near Vicenza before June 1524. The title of the book was "Historia novellamente ritrovata di due nobili amanti" ("Newly found story of two noble lovers"),
to another man and the two families hold an ancient grudge. As in Pyramus and Thisbe, the mistaken belief in one lover's death leads to consecutive suicides. The earliest version of Romeo and Juliet was published in 1476 by Masuccio Salernitano, while it mostly obtained its present form when written down in 1524 by Luigi da Porto. Salernitano and Da Porto both are thought to have been inspired by Ovid and Boccaccio's writing. Shakespeare's most famous 1590s adaptation is a dramatization of Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem "The Tragical History