| We recall Goethe writing The Sorrows of Young Werther, which set off a wave of suicides in Europe in imitation of the eponymous hero. |
| In the meantime, a string quartet from Hamburg gave a concert in Rome at the Goethe Institute. |
| You get that early romanticism of Goethe, the Sturm und Drang giving way to something a bit more restrained. |
| Goethe employs the fiction that an editor-figure publishes, with an epilogue, the authentic letters of a young man who commits suicide. |
| The German ambassador and the director of the Goethe Institut rode on tilburies with the immense crowd on each side of the street welcoming them. |
| The young Goethe was himself madly in love with a woman named Charlotte Buff, who was to be married to his friend, Georg Kestner. |
