Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-293) and index
Opened wounds: Winckelmann and the discovery of the art of the ancients -- Fathers and sons in Italy: the ghosts of Goethe's past -- Taking the words out of the father's mouth: Goethe's authorial triumph -- On Goethe's other trail: Heinrich Heine's grand de-tour -- The return of the repressed: Nietzsche and Freud -- Goethe's other Italy: the devil's playground -- Birthing Italy
A study of the lure of Italy in German culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century