He was going to walk into the sunlight during the festival, where all the humans could see him.
Yes, when he thought Bella had died, after Alice saw Bella jump off a cliff, he tried to confirm it by calling Bella's house. The same day Charlie goes to one of his friends funeral so when he calls Jacob Black answers and tells him that Charlie is "at the funeral" he thinks it's Bella's funeral. Since he's not planning to live without her, he decides to go to Italy to provoke the Volturi. He clearly knows you don't provoke the Volturi unless you want to die. So after the Volturi rejects his petition to die, he decides to get them mad by revealing what they really are, vampires. He goes up high were the sunlight can hit him so he can show to the people what they really are.
Edward is in Volterra, Italy, about to expose himself to the Volturi in order to provoke them into killing him after receiving false information about Bella's death.
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Edward said the volturi are the closest thing his family has to royalty
Edward never was in the Volturi. Carlisle was.
Jane
He mentioned the Volturi in the novel New Moon.
Edward went to the volturi when he thought that Bella was dead ... And he went there to ask from the volturi to kill him ... but they didn't kill him ...
The climax of "New Moon" is when Edward decides to provoke the Volturi in order to save Bella. This decision leads to a tense confrontation in Italy where Bella rushes to stop Edward from revealing himself as a vampire and facing possible death.
The Volturi are the oldest and most powerful of the Vampire Covens, the closest to a royal family of vampires. They make sure that there is law and order, and that the rules are not broken; ie. no-one who is not a vampire knows that vampires exsist.
No Edward does not kill their daughter, he protects her from the Volturi.
volterra to see the volturi