TY - BOOK ID - 46303 TI - Wilhelm Waiblinger in Italy AU - Thompson, Lawrence S. PY - 1953 SN - 9781469658544 DB - DOAB KW - German Studies KW - Literature UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:46303 AB - This study traces the importance of Italy as a source of literary inspiration in the work of the Swabian poet Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804-1830), who spent the last four years of his life, the most prolific of his career, living and traveling in Italy. Drawing on Waiblinger's poems, travel accounts, letters and diaries, Thompson compiles and analyzes Waiblinger's thoughts on and engagement with Italian art, literature, music, people and landscapes as well as the themes of antiquity, Renaissance, and Catholicism. ER -