Giosuè Carducci,
Poems of Italy: selections from the Odes of Giosue Carducci…
(1906)
“ The castle, before the frowning walls of which the poet is meditating, stands by the river Adige—which here flows through Verona—and was long the home of the great Veronese family of the Scaligers. The Church of St. Zeno, to which reference is made in the last stanza, is noted as one of the finest examples of the Romanesque in northern Italy. ”
