One of our Palladian E-Bikes is called Ophelia.
Created by the intellect of William Shakespeare, we find the maiden and her tragic story between the pages of the tragedy Hamlet, set in the Danish court.
Ophelia, the sensitive daughter of the court chamberlain, believes that the romantic flattery of the young Prince Hamlet conceals other and baser purposes. Increasingly confused and caught in the grip of the conduct imposed by her father and brother, captured by the trail of blood that permeates the events triggered by Hamlet, and having lost the power of reason, she gives into the lure of death: exhausted and distraught, she throws herself into a river and drowns.
Ophelia is the representation of the innocent sensibility, of the naivety of young love. She is a pure soul, entangled in murky palace conspiracies, who sees no other way to save herself than death. It is a figure that enriches with bright details a dark story with cruel implications.
But the tragic end of the girl has always inspired the world of art. There are numerous paintings that portray her lost in her thoughts or sweetly transported by the flow, many of them created by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John William Waterhouse who found in Ophelia a subject of inexhaustible inspiration.