Verona [antikvár]

Verona, according to the attestation of Pliny the Elder, is a Rhaetian and Euganean city. The most ancient sign of the presence of Romé at Verona and in the Veneto is the route of the Via Postumia, largely realized by Spurius Post-humius Albinus, consul in 148 B.C. The official act of birth of the city of Verona as a settlement organized in accordance with the Román úrban criterion is represented by the inscription to be seen on the republican Gate of the Lions, 49 B.C. when Verona, together with other cities of the Transpadana region, gained Román citizenship. Verona was to enjoy a par-ticularly happy period under the empire of Claudius (41 - 54 A.D.) and that of Nero (54 -68 A.D.) during which its city gates were Archaeological Museum. Bronzé head from the Augustan period renewed and it had the courtesy title of Colonia Augusta, renewed in 265 by the emperor Gallie-nus: Colonia Augusta Verona Nova Gallieniana. The 4th Century was for Verona, as for that matter for a great part of the Empire, the period of the assertion of Christianity linked here with the work of the 'coloured' Bishop S. Zeno, 8th in the city's series of Bishops, who died in 372. After the fali of the Empire, Verona enjoyed a period of prestige during the reign of Theodoric (489 - 526), who chose it as one of his favourite residences, to such a degree that Germán legend regards the Gothic king as a Veronese, Theodoric of Verona. In 568 Verona feli under Longo-bard dominion and was chosen by Alboin as his place of residence. Alboin was killed in Verona