Goethe and Anna Amalia: A Forbidden Love?
Edited by : Translated by Dan Farrelly
Publication Date 8th, June, 2007
ISBN 978-1-904505-24-2
Cost €20.00
In this study Ghibellino sets out to show that the platonic relationship between Goethe and Charlotte von Stein - lady-in-waiting to Anna Amalia, the Dowager Duchess of Weimar - was used as part of a cover-up for Goethe's intense and prolonged love-relationship with the Duchess Anna Amalia herself. The book attempts to uncover a hitherto closely guarded state secret. Readers convinced by the evidence supporting Ghibellino's hypothesis will see in it one of the very great love stories in European history - to rank with that of Dante and Beatrice, and Petrarch and Laura. The publication of the German edition in 2003 casued a sensation in some circles.
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Ettore Ghibellino
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See also...
Goethe and Schubert: Across the divide
Goethe's Singspiel, 'Claudine von Villa Bella'
Goethe: Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst
Proserpina: Goethe's Meldodrama with Music by Carl Eberwein, Orchestral Score and Piano Reduction
