Padua
cradle of the arts

"Padua is not only the city of Antenore [Trojan hero who founded the city], it is like a millefeuille cake: it is the Roman city of Tito Livio, the Christian city of Antonio, the one bloodied by Ezzelino, the one where Giotto, Mantegna, Tiziano, Tiepolo gave life to the flower of their works, the revealing one of Galileo and Morgagni from the top of their chairs, the goliardic one typical of the rebellious youth against the dominant invader, the one wisely ruled by the Carraresi, the Venetian one of Alvise Cornaro and Gaspare Gozzi, the sensual and dramatic one of Ruzante and, coming to our century, the industrial and agricultural one, always revived by an exuberant vitality that seems to be due to the surrounding land, pervaded since prehistoric times by the volcanic fire of the Euganean Hills".

Giovanni Comisso

In the subtitle
cit. William Shakespeare