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Juliet's liquer "Filtro d'Amore"
The liquer has created using an old recipe of traditional herbalists. The precise composition is a secret, but the liquer is an exquisite blend of alcool, essential oil of roses, herbs and roots. These natural ingredients are combined with water and sugar and left to ferment. The delicate hint of spice in the bouquet is due to the addition of a very precise amount of essential oil obtained from the infusion of selected herbs and roots. The alcohol content is 30% Vol.
To enjoy to the full the "FILTRO D'AMORE" liquer, serve it chilled in its special glass - the "BICCHIERINO DELL'AMORE" - and sip slowly. An elegant tribute to the world's most wellknown pair of lovers - Romeo and Juliet.Romeo and Juliet
Love Talisman
Pendent engraved on one side with Romeo and Juliet and on the other the words - I love Love: I look for it, I follow it, I find it, I give it. Romeo and Jiuliet would have exchanged this pendant as a Love Token (incision on metal - Made in
Italy)
A perennial staple of high school English classes, Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare at a relatively early juncture in his literary career, most probably in 1594 or 1595. During much of the twentieth century, critics tended to disparage this play in comparison to the four great tragedies that Shakespeare wrote in the first decade of the seventeenth century (Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello). Appraised next to the Bard's mature works, Romeo and Juliet appears to lack the psychological depth and the structural complexity of Shakespeare's later tragedies. But over the past three decades or so, many scholars have altered this assessment, effectively upgrading its status within Shakespeare's canon. They have done this by discarding comparative evaluation and judging Romeo and Juliet as a work of art in its own right.
Viewed from this fresh perspective, Shakespeare's tragic drama of the "star-crossed" young lovers is seen to be an extraordinary work. Indeed, Romeo and Juliet was an experimental stage piece at the time of its composition, featuring several radical departures from long-standing conventions. These innovative aspects of the play, moreover, reinforce and embellish its principal themes. The latter include the antithesis between love and hate, the correlative use of a light/dark polarity, the handling of time (as both theme and as structural element), and the prominent status accorded to Fortune and its expression in the dreams, omens and forebodings that presage its tragic conclusion.
The story of these unhappy lovers is much older than Shakespeare's tragic drama, dating back to a literary and popular tradition handed down over the centuries; the plot was written for the first tine in Verona by Da Porto and Della Corte in the XVI Century. The story, which imaginatively but not unrealistically mirrors a time of inter-family strife in Xlll Century Verona, as suggested by the 700 fortified houses built by that time, combines with the affection of theVeronese and lovers worldwide to form a suggestive itinerary starting from Juliet's House in via Cappello, to Romeo's House,
in Via Arche, to the very old streets of Corte Regia and the two streets appropriately named after the lovers, Via Amanti and Vicolo Amanti, and finally to Juliet's Tomb, in the ancient convent of the Capuchins outside the town walls: here, in a suggestive cell, lies an open and empty sarcophagus in red marble - a symbol of tragedy and mourning that today marks a call for peace and love.
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