num_pages: 489
description: 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. His writings cover literature, art history and his own struggle to be a painter, various sciences and political events, personal encounters, and the Italian landscape. "In Rome," Goethe wrote, "I first found myself, for the first time I achieved inner harmony...." For Goethe the writer, this temporal and spiritual journey was at the root of his development from Sturm und Drang to classicism, a decisive point in his life and the history of German literature.
language: English
title: Goethe, Volume 6: Italian Journey
titlecomplete: Goethe, Volume 6: Italian Journey (Goethe's Collected Works)
characters: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
genres: Classics, History, Travel, Italy, German Literature, Germany, Biography, Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1663
places: Italy
publisher: Princeton University Press