{"product_id":"italian-journey-9780691292250","title":"Italian Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn authoritative English translation of Goethe’s correspondence and diary entries from his travels in Italy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContaining the letters and diaries that Goethe wrote during his journey to Italy at age thirty-seven, \u003ci\u003eItalian Journey\u003c\/i\u003e 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, I first found myself,” Goethe writes, “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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Collected Works of Goethe presents modern translations of a representative portion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s vast body of work. Selected from more than 140 volumes in German, this twelve-volume series remains the standard collection in English and features poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, criticism, and scientific writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43489458847862,"sku":"9780691292250","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_f1e7ec31-75e3-43d1-a765-46bed7f47001.jpg?v=1780868429","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/italian-journey-9780691292250","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}