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From Valtellina, Tresivio comes a Legend: Shakespeare was born HERE!
Valtellina, the region in North Lombardy, in Italy, is rich in artistic treasures of every age, in a country lost to tall mountain chains: from the drawings of 7000 years ago to the local "express" art in churches, chapels, and frescos from 1500 through the 1700's.
Tresivio is a country accessible from Sondrio, passing over the Valtellina Bridge: it possesses an ancient font from which the coolest water of the valley gushes out, the parish church with paintings from 600, and the beautiful region of S. Tomaso in Tresivio. From Tresivio comes published a Bulletin edited by the Town Library: Number 2, March 1984, we find an article by Guido Scaramellini, with the title
Shakespeare at Tresivio?
Scaramellini had begun his search based on a Valtellina legend: Shakespeare was born in Valtellina, with the name of Michelangelo Florio, a Valtellinese Protestant, who looked for escape from the Inquisition by taking refuge in London, where he took the name of Shakespeare. Between 1942 and 1945 a certain Paul Vigaṇ was able to put the story together ... in communication with Shakespeare, his wife, his children, the houseservant, and the priest of Sondrio then a Crollalanza ... How? With psychography. According to Vigaṇ, Shakespeare was born to the farmer Giovanni Crollalanza, in Sondrio, where he was baptized with the name of William: he arrived, after a long trip in Italy and in Europe, in London where he transformed his name (Crolla-lanza) into the English Shake-speare, meaning the same homonym!
In 1950 Charles Villa, adding other particulars to the legend, specifically states that the native country of Shakespeare is really Tresivio! Other interesting details, fanciful, but described by the author with notable critical ability, can be found reading the article of Guido Scaramellini, that, in conclusion, informs: it deals only, unfortunately, with a beautiful fable.
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