Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Then of course there was or wasn't Salieri.....................

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[mercia]

what mercia makes of it

not a lot !!
if AG is correct with Salieri, the only relevant Vs I can find are Verona, Venice and Vienna
your "airy" V word I think I'm taking to be vent ?????
if it is a male poet, the only one I can find so far is Louys
and so far the only widowed bride I have is Lucia di Lammermoor, but with calorgas's dislike for opera that doesn't seem a likely candidate
nothing connecting at all for me ..........................

[antongould]

if I remember from my searches last evening "..bred of an airy word......" points to Verona!

[mercia]

oh well done AG, I shouldn't have interrupted

[antongould]

yes you should have because I cannot get any further!!!!!

[mercia]

Catullus the poet?

[vinteuil]

so it's Juliet the bride/widow...

However, Caliban said this was a "fictional character". He may therefore expect legal representations from the city of Verona - after all, the tourist board there proudly point to the very balcony from which Juliet spoke - so she must have been a real person, mustn't she??

[mercia]

and Juliet isn't widowed is she?

[Nick Armstrong]

Well you are there, by team effort .... but I'm not sure who gets the next letter.

It is Verona, indeed - birthplace of Catullus ("My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love") and Salieri (nb slight cheat - he was born in the province of Verona, rather than the town) and where Juliet and indeed Romeo (who married her and then killed himself mistakenly thinking her dead) lived.

It seems to me anton shades it - he got Salieri and the R&J connection, and picked out Verona...

[Nick Armstrong]

and Juliet isn't widowed is she?

Yes she was for a few seconds - she wakes up after Romeo has taken the fatal poison, and lives long enough after he dies to take her own life. A matter of a few seconds. I said it was brief

[antongould]

I hardly feel I deserve it..........................

[mercia]

oh, beg pardon, I didn't think they'd reached marriage-hood

yeah, well-done AG

[Nick Armstrong]

oh, beg pardon, I didn't think they'd reached marriage-hood

Friar Laurence and all that...

[mercia]

oh, for a classical education

[Nick Armstrong]

I hardly feel I deserve it..........................

On balance I think so though mercia first pronounced the word Verona, vinsanto having seemingly pulled up despite clearing the first fence by impliedly twigging Catullus without pronouncing his name....