High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Veronese Riddle is a riddle, apparently half-Italian, half-Latin, written on the margin of a parchment, on the Verona Orational, probably in the 8th or early 9th century, by a Catholic monk from Verona, a city in the Veneto region, in Northern Italy. It was a very popular riddle in the Middle Ages and has survived into dialects to date. Discovered by Schiapparelli in 1924 it was considered for a long time the first document ever written in the Italian language.