 Luigi da Porto ( 1485 – 1529 ) adapted the story as Giulietta e Romeo and included it in his Historia <unk> <unk> di due Nobili <unk> , written in 1524 and published posthumously in 1531 in Venice . Da Porto drew on Pyramus and Thisbe , Boccacio 's Decameron , and <unk> 's Mariotto e <unk> , but it is likely that his story is also autobiographical : present as a soldier at a ball on 26 February 1511 at a residence of the Savorgnan clan in Udine , following a peace ceremony with the opposite <unk> , Da Porta fell in love with Lucina , the daughter of the house , but relationships of their mentors prevented advances . The next morning , the <unk> led an attack on the city , and many members of the <unk> were murdered . When years later , half @-@ paralyzed from a battle @-@ wound , he wrote Giulietta e Romeo in <unk> Vicentino ( from where he could see the " castles " of Verona ) , he dedicated the novella to <unk> e <unk> madonna Lucina Savorgnan . Da Porto presented his tale as historically true and claimed it took place a century earlier than <unk> had it , in the days Verona was ruled by Bartolomeo II della Scala ( anglicized as Prince <unk> ) . 
