Missed last week's programme, but really enjoyed tonight's. It was a very plausible idea that Shakespeare used the setting of Italy to express ideas which would have been deemed unacceptable if not a direct attack or critique of the Queen and government, if they had been set in England.
Visually superb too, and Francesco da Mosta is just the epitome of the smooth suave Italian isn't he? I find his face positively medieval - he could be a Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent, or any Venetian nobleman (which I believe he actually is!)
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gangy that sounds like a good idea to me!
I am a great fan of Francesco da Mosta!!!! Lovely to watch and listen to!!!! Have recorded both the programmes about Shakespeare in Italy so that I can drool over them again. We have been to Venice several times but have yet to bump into him.
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