The watercolor above, in the British Museum, was executed shortly after his return from Italy. Goethe was viewed… In the case of southern Italy, it reflects conditions then existent in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Try Prime Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Orders Try Prime Basket. When his musings were published as part of Italian Journey, many flocked to the island, buoyed by his descriptions of its enchanting beauty. This ebook presents «Italian Journey», from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe tried his hand at such landscapes as well. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Frankfurt am Main, 1749 – Weimar, 1832) was a German author, poet and playwright. Goethe's Third Italian Journey As I have written elsewhere , Italy has had a special place in the imagination of German artists and writers. Italian Journey is the report of Goethe's trip in Italy from 1786 to 1788. Think, for instance, of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, which portrays the longing and repulsion. The book is based on Goethe's diaries.It is smoothed in style, lacking the spontaneity of his diary report, and augmented with the addition of afterthoughts and reminiscences. Once in Venice, Goethe continues his tribute to the Italian people, setting out on foot to explore the island, open to experience: "I have been to the fartherest edges of the inhabited area and studied the way of life, the morals and manners of the inhabitants. Goethe set out for the land where the lemon trees grow* in September 1786 and returned from his Italian journey after almost two years of emotional and artistic enrichment and education. Containing the letters and diaries that Goethe wrote during his journey to Italy at age thirty-seven, Italian Journey reveals his tremendous range of interests. They are different in every district. The book is based on Goethe's diaries.It is smoothed in style, lacking the spontaneity of his diary report, and augmented with the addition of afterthoughts and reminiscences. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), a prolific and celebrated German writer and philosopher whose works include novels, poetry, memoirs, an autobiography, scientific writings, and drawings, also had ties to Italy. He visited the Republic of Venice and Naples under the Bourbons, both in their last days. His journey was a kind of escape from his work as a minister in Weimar. His journey was a kind of escape from his work as a minister in Weimar. Italian Journey is an autobiographical account of an intellectual's experiences. Goethe travelled through much of Italy, spending March, April and May 1787 in Sicily, and his memoir was published in 1817 as Italian Journey.

Skip to main content. Good heavens! Think, for instance, of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice , which portrays the longing and repulsion. Her delay in leaving Rome, however, meant that Goethe stayed longer than expected. “To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.” So wrote Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, after visiting the island in 1787.

Albrecht Dürer first went there in 1494, two years after Columbus discovered the New World. Goethe is universally recognised as the greatest poet in the German language. "In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on a journey to Italy to fulfil a personal and artistic quest and to find relief from his responsibilities and the agonies of unrequited love. In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on a journey to Italy to fulfil a personal and artistic quest and to find relief from his responsibilities and the agonies of unrequited love.

Goethe was viewed as a complicated man, a quality reflected in his work. Table of Contents-01- About this book-02- FROM CARLSBAD TO THE BRENNER-03- FROM THE BRENNER TO VERONA-04- FROM VERONA TO VENICE-05- VENICE-06- FROM FERRARA TO ROME-07- ROME His adventures in beautiful Sicily made me long to visit it. From 1786 to 1788, he embarked on a tour of Italy that greatly influenced his writings and philosophy.