Goethe fled his court duties for Italy in 1786 and stayed nearly two years, and came back a different writer: Verona and Venice, Rome and its antiquities, Naples and Vesuvius, Sicily — with the botany, geology and drawing that mattered to him as much as the art, and a growing sense of having been reborn.
The most famous journey in German literature, in Goethe’s own record. Download the free EPUB.