Delight in Italy; the “Italienische Reise”; journey to Rome; arrives in Rome, October 29, 1786; attempts to think himself back into the Rome of ancient times; his study of ancient art; the art of the Renascence; St. Peter’s; friends in Rome; thinks of becoming an artist; re-writes “Iphigenie” in verse; visits Naples; Sicily; second residence in Rome; completes “Egmont”; works at “Faust”; leaves Rome on April 21, 1788, and arrives at Weimar on June 18th 106 CHAPTER VII. Benefit derived from his sojourn in Italy; relieved of most of his ministerial duties; change in his relations to Frau von Stein; his informal marriage with Christiane Vulpius; character of Christiane; relations with Frau von Stein broken off; “Römische Elegien”; his new ideal in dramatic art; “Egmont”; “Iphigenie”; “Torquato Tasso”; “Faust: A Fragment,” published in 1790; his discovery of the metamorphosis of plants; visits Venice in 1790; his son August; his discovery of the true constitution of the skull; his opposition to Newton’s theory of colours; becomes director of the Weimar Court Theatre; receives from the Duke the house in which he spends the rest of his life; the outbreak of the French Revolution; Goethe’s position with regard to it; “Gross-Cophta”; “Die Aufgeregten”; accompanies the Duke during the campaign in Champagne; “Reineke Fuchs”; joins the Duke before Mainz; returns to Weimar 116 CHAPTER VIII. Schiller arrives at Weimar in 1787; his character; meets Goethe for the first time; settles as a professor at Jena; his marriage; Goethe calls upon him in 1790, and they talk about Kant’s philosophy; Schiller goes to Würtemberg; on his return asks Goethe to write for the _Horen_; Schiller spends a fortnight in Goethe’s house; their friendship; what it did for Schiller; and for Goethe; the “Xenien”; “Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre”; “Hermann und Dorothea”; “Alexis und Doris”; ballads; Goethe as a lyrical poet; “Die Propyläen”; “Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert”; autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; “Rameaus Neffe”; Schiller’s “Wallenstein” represented at Weimar; Schiller settles at Weimar; great period in history of Weimar; Goethe and the philosophical movement of the age; Goethe and the Romantic School; Madame de Staël; “Die Natürliche Tochter”; works at “Faust”; Death of Schiller; Goethe’s grief 134 CHAPTER IX.