The Foro Romano is the main public square in Rome. It is located between the Palatine, Velia, Quirinal, and Capitol. The Foro Romano was the center of religious, ceremonial, and commercial life within Rome. Gladiator fighting occurred here and the surrounding shops built balconies for viewing the fights. A growing increase in the public importance of popular politics necessitated the changing from the Comitium to the forum.

The place where our hero, Daniel Deronda, first meets his biological mother.  Unlike Leubronn, Genoa is very much real and actually feautures in another famous work of literature - that being the Merchant of Venice, written by Shakespeare many, many years before the author would have even been born.  Ironically, given the sympathetic rendering of Jews and Jewishness in the novel, Merchant of Venice is often a bit of a slog for the modern reader because of its casual antisemitism.  Actually, the whole of Mirah and Deronda's relationship can be read as almost the exact opp

Now a hotel, this courthouse in Soho is where Wilde's case for gross indecency against him took place after his affair with a British aristocrat, Lord Alfred Douglas,  came to light. Douglas' father, the Marquess of Queensbury, was so upset his son was romantically involved with a man that he exposed Wilde's sexual orientation which was punishable by law in England up until the 1960s. Despite his homosexual acts being illegal, Wilde took the Marquess to trial for defamation which did not go Wilde's way by any means, landing him in prison.