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Goethe’s journal-letter of his 1786-1788 visit to Italy reveals a man of wide interests who has to keep discarding some of the rocks he’s collected to make room for more geological and botanical samples. They also reflect a man of literature working on his poems and plays as well as an observer of architecture, art, and local society and a collector of art. The journal was written for friends back in Germany, so it has a different feeling from a journal written primarily for the writer—it presen
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