For some years it has been rumored that the story of Romeo and Juliet does not belong to the city of Verona, but to Friuli. The short story dedicated to the most famous love story in the world would be inspired by the autobiographical tale of Luigi Da Porto around 1520. Luigi was born in Vicenza in 1485 by Bernardino Da Porto and Elisabetta Savorgnan, Lucina (the Juliet he falls in love with) was born in Udine in 1496 by Giacomo Savorgnan Del Monte and Maria Griffoni. In the background a Udine of 1511 with the rival families Savorgan Del Monte and Savorgnan Del Torre, and an impediment to the love of the two young people. Luigi and Lucina have known each other since childhood, Elisabetta, Luigi's mother, often goes to Udine to find her brother Antonio, a powerful lord of the area, and the cousins ​​of the Del Monte branch, Giacomo and Girolamo. But the spark bursts on February 26, 1511, when Luigi, having joined the army of the Serenissima, is stationed in Cividale Del Friuli and takes part (probably masked to favor his presence incognito) in the Carnival party that Lucina's mother organizes in her palace in Udine. It is the eve of the "ZOBBIA GRASSA" (Fat Thursday, and is remembered as the bloodiest revolution that took place in Friuli, a destructive clash between the two branches of the Savorgnan family), there is a climate of peace and joy, fifteen year old Lucina debut singing, dancing and playing in all her beauty. The two young people immediately fall in love with each other and make a promise of marriage. A promise that will never be realized, because in the night between 18 and 19 June 1551, Luigi, during a clash with the Austrian militias near the Natisone river, is wounded in the neck by a spear blow, which leaves him paralyzed on the left side. . He retires to his villa in Montorso Vicentino, where he learns the news of the marriage between his beloved and his cousin Francesco Savorgnan Del Torre, a wedding desired by Venice to reconcile the two branches of the family. Destroyed by pain, he wrote the short story "JULIET" dedicating it to his beloved. A story that for reasons of prudence was set in the fourteenth century in Verona, transported to the times of Bartolomeo Della Scala between 1301 and 1304. The short story came into the hands of William Shakespeare who transposed it into a world-famous theatrical play.