Florentine Nights
[Heine wrote the fragment entitled Florentine Nights in 1835, and published it two years later in the third volume of the Salon. It is a series of brilliant pictures united by a very slight thread of connection. There is unquestionably an additional element of autobiographical interest; Maximilian’s visits to Potsdam and London correspond to Heine’s, and throughout this various record of impressions we frequently hear Heine’s own voice. The translation here given has not been previously published.]