(66) the "true" Shakespeare often has been in Italy ! not the Stratfordman !

The "true" Shakespeare often has been in Italy! ...not the Stratfordman ! 

Richard Roes "The Shakespeare Guide to Italy" recognises with sufficient certainty that Shakespeare's local italian knowledge proves that the poet must have been in Italy .

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In " The Merchant of Venice ," Shakespeare knows much about the situation in Venice, on the relations between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews , as well as the Marranos .

In "Loves Labors Lost" ( Act 4 , Scene 2 ) Holofernes exclaims:

                » Venetia , Venetia , chi non ti vede , non ti pretia ! "                    
                          [» Venice , Venice, who does not see you , does not appreciate you! " ]

Doesn't this tell us frankly that the author must have seen Venice and mastered the Italian language ? Both is  not true for Shakspere from Stratford . 10  Shakespeare plays in whole or in part occur  in Italy.

  A strong argument (among many) why the authorship debate arose was that the plays revealed a distinct  local knowledge of Italy, which can not be attributed to the Stratford man who  never visited Italy.

  Already in 1877 Theodor Elze (<- click) postulated that Shakespeare must have known Venice and Padua from his own experience , since his local information were too precise .  Lately Richard Roe enquired the problem more deeply . For twenty years he had traveled the country to pursue the issue. His book "The Shakespeare Guide to Italy" recognises with sufficient certainty that Shakespeare's local italian knowledge proves that the poet must have been in  Italy 

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The topic  of the Shakespeare Authorship Trust Conference on 24.Nov.2013 in London ("Much ado about Italy" - below: 3 lectures ) focused on this issue:   Hank Whittemore Richard Paul Roe 's The Shakespeare Guide to Italy   Kevin Gilvary   writ in choice Italian   Alexander Waugh Shakespeare - no true traveler?

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