Shakespeare’s Italy with Maria Grazia

It has been suggested that Shakespeare may have visited northern Italy as some of his plays show a detailed knowledge of local topography of certain towns in that area.Shakespeare produced a number of plays with an Italian background, from his earliest ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ to one of his last, ‘The Tempest’.19th-century Shakespeare scholars believed that Shakespeare must have visited Italy at some point. But few Shakespeare scholars hold that opinion today, for a number of reasons.Has William Shakespeare ever been in Italy? Why did he set so many of his plays in the Italian peninsula? There are a few reasons he might have chosen Italy so many times.Let’s have a closer look at the plays, locations and history to better understand the man and his work.