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    "localId": "q524n390w",
    "label": "Magnifica illa civitas Verona ; Colonia augusta Verona nova gallieniana",
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    "id": "q524n390w",
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    "title": "Magnifica illa civitas Verona ; Colonia augusta Verona nova gallieniana",
    "description": "Romeo sorrowfully laments in act three, scene three of Romeo and Juliet, \"There is no world without Verona walls.\" Faced with banishment from Juliet, Romeo pleads with Friar Laurence to grant him any other fate than expulsion from Verona, and despite their affection for one another, Romeo and Juliet tragically could not escape the animosity that their families had for each other. The 1582 map displayed here illustrates Verona, known as a center for art and architecture, in two views, complete with vignettes of perhaps the star-crossed lovers on the left, and the Arena – a remnant from the city's importance in Roman times – on the right.",
    "date": "[\"[1582]\"]",
    "year": 1582,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:q524n390w",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "Latin",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_015728",
    "creators": [
        "Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590",
        "Kempen, Gottfried von, active 1576-1598"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Romeo (Fictitious character)",
        "Juliet (Fictitious character)",
        "Verona (Italy)--Aerial views--Early works to 1800",
        "Verona (Italy)--Maps--Early works to 1800"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "Europe",
        "Italy",
        "Venetan",
        "Verona"
    ],
    "genreBasic": [
        "Maps"
    ],
    "typeOfResource": [
        "Cartographic"
    ],
    "country": "Italy",
    "city": "Verona",
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    "source": "import",
    "pubPlace": "[Collen]",
    "publisher": "[Godfrid von Kempen]"
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    "schema:latitude": 45.45,
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    "extent": "2 views on 1 sheet : hand colored ; 17 x 47 cm and 19 x 47 cm, on sheet 40 x 55 cm",
    "notes": [
        "View at top includes index.",
        "Map at bottom is illustrated with a vignette of the \"Amphitheatrum in Foro Boario situm\", and two court figures in a landscape, possibly Romeo and Juliet.",
        "On verso: German text about Verona on [page] \"49\".",
        "From Contrafactur und beschreibung von den vornembsten stetten der Welt, liber tertius. Cöllen : Godfrid von Kempen, [1582].",
        "Map and view in Latin. Text on verso in German."
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    "dcId": "q524n390w",
    "type": "map"
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