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.
- ISBN10 069103799X
- ISBN13 9780691037998
- Publish Date 20 November 1994 (first published 13 February 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 July 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 495
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/5436.html