A meter is a group of two syllables, or feet.. The two feet are either stressed or unstressed, in some sort of pattern, which gives the line that certain rhythm that makes the line sound poetic.. Put it all together, and all of Romeo and Juliet 's lines will have ten feet, or ten syllables. Now for the iambic part. An iamb is a foot, the basic unit of meter.
in Europe. Genoa is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria. Located in the northwest of the country on the Ligurian Sea located in the former center of the Middle Ages, major republic of Genoa is now the administrative seat of the province.
Christopher Columbus, if indeed he was born in Genoa, would have been called at birth Cristoforo Colombo. His birth is postulated at between August and October of 1451. Today Genoa is part of Italy, but in 1451 it was an independent city-state, and the richest city in the western Mediterranean. The native language of Genoa at that time was Ligurian. Columbus spoke several languages by the time he was an adult, including Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and perhaps Catalan.