Eclectic Goethe

The travel in Italy of Johan Wolfgang Goethe is a catalogue of impression that author has took during his travel and among cities and town which he has visited; but attention these impressions are solo past, this is; Goethe has written these images of his travel alone after he returned in Germany, he took alone immediate impressions and he written it, but during second time he has gathered this material, but it means that he during travel has seen much; I understand that for us it is today normal, we visit a county or city and we see everything, and everybody with one’s sensibility see the city or town and lives this context among painting, architecture or alone nature without human works; Goethe sees and studies different contexts, he is present to theatre for comedy of Carlo Goldoni, in Venice, before in Padua that he describes with particular, and Vicenza, other city, with his theatre, but also painting of Veronese, in Venice, and architecture of Sansovino, and mineral and geological description which Goethe made during pages. It attests that Goethe isn’t alone a tourist but a studious, and he makes confront with German, for theatre some characters which in German theatre aren’t; finally he makes description and confront, even around women and around their characteristics, around wheatear, certainly best than German, and he sees all is interesting, or it is so for him; and he shows therefore an eclecticism for his interests, a variety of interests that he follows and he has, that he shows for descriptions and punctual impressions.

Alessandro Lusana