Editing Mantua (section)

==In fiction==
* In [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', Romeo is punished for killing [[Tybalt]]: he is exiled from Verona to Mantua. The plan was for both Romeo and Juliet to escape Verona after Juliet woke up from her fake death, but that never happened, because Romeo died, and she stabbed herself to death.
* In William Shakespeare's play ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'', the schoolmaster who pretends to be [[Lucentio]]'s father, Vincentio, is from Mantua. Hortensio is presented as "Licio, born in Mantua". Another character simply named "Pedant" states that he is from Mantua.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://shakespeare.mit.edu/taming_shrew/full.html|title = Taming of the Shrew: Entire Play}}</ref> 
* [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s opera ''[[Rigoletto]]'' (based on [[Victor Hugo]]'s play ''[[Le roi s'amuse]]'') is set in Mantua. Austro-Hungarian authorities in [[Venice]] forced him to move the action from France to Mantua. A medieval building with portico and 15th-century loggia in Mantua is said to be "Rigoletto's house". It was actually the house of the cathedral regulars. It was chosen by the Gonzaga family as the residence of the legendary fool who was then used by Verdi in his opera.
* [[Netflix]]'s Italian mini-series [[The Trial (Italian TV series)|The Trial]] ({{langx|it|Il processo}}), released in Italy in 2019, was primarily filmed in Mantua. It was directed by [[Stefano Lodovichi]], and was created by [[Alessandro Fabbri (screenwriter)|Alessandro Fabbri]], in collaboration with Laura Colella and Enrico Audenino. It is the fictional story of the challenges faced by a local prosecutor as she takes up a murder case involving a local wealthy woman.