"Verona felt a little jaded. Or maybe... " a Verona Travel Page by craic

My friend in Genoa had given me a book he had been instrumental in called In Venice And In The Veneto With Ezra Pound. It had a chapter on Verona and I planned to read it on the train to prepare myself.
But our train to Milan was packed and running late. So we missed our connection. And had to find out how to get onto the next train and the guard said there were no spare seats (although there seemed to be hundreds of spare seats) so we crouched in the corridor with our huge suitcases and were a perfect nuisance to everybody. So I didn't read it.
I read it when I got home and how I laughed when I got to the bit about the Ristorante dei Dodici Apostoli. Because the well known VTer domenicococozza.had strongly recommended it to me. If I had known then what I know now, I would have been seriously tempted.

Pound used to eat there a lot when it was a simple restaurant at cab driver level where one might meet an affable putana. Pound dedicated his book Guido Cavalcanti Rime to his friend Manlio Dazzi - che ha mangiato 'Ai Dodici Apostoli' - and there in Canto 74 is the ultimate reason to make a pilgrimage to this literary shrine. And maybe even have a meal.

Trattoria degli Apostoli (dodici)
"Ecco il te" said the head waiter
in 1912 explaining its mysteries to the piccolo
with a teapot from another hotel
"Dodici apostoli (trattoria)
and the affable putana (whore) wanting to adjust the spelling of Guido
as it is not in the "Capitolare".

And as I was totally unprepared I do not even have a photo!

Here is domenico's email to me when I told him what good advice he had given me - which I didn't pick up on.

"Hey Jen, I did know about the Putane and 12 Apostoli. But that's only half of it. Some years ago, electricians were digging a hole in the floor of the cellar and a part of it collapsed, creating a void. After investigating, a Roman road and 2 shrines were found. The restaurant paid for the excavation and it's now possible to view this area."

So maybe that is the restaurant to go to. Address - Corticella San Marco 3.

(And that is a statue of a poet - a local poet who must have been quite good or he wouldn't have got a statue.)