La Casa di Giulietta had always belonged to the Dal Cappello family until purchased by the City of Verona in 1905. Cappello is close enough to Capulet that there’s a semblance of credibility to ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The decision to stage a serious contemporary art show in Juliet’s House tests the boundaries of irony.

So you could feel the legend of Casa di Giulietta doesn’t have much to stand on (and the words “tourist trap” drift into my mind as I gaze down on the gathering throng in the courtyard below ...