returns to Basle and sees Wagner again; project of a cloister; on War; at Lugano; his horror at the burning of the Louvre; Wagner's guest; publishes _The Birth of Tragedy,_; ill-success of the book; farewell to Triebschen; at Bayreuth; wishes to fight for Wagner; and Fräulein von Meysenbug; in North Italy; at Splügen; return to Basle; how to found a culture; holidays at Naumburg; philosophical formulas; goes to Bayreuth; attack on Strauss; his friendship with Gersdorff; _Thoughts Out of Season_; proposed series of twenty pamphlets; begins to distrust Wagnerian art; _Schopenhauer as Educator_; visits the Wagners with his sister; depression; serious illness; with his sister at Basle; at Chülon; letter to Fräulein von Meysenbug on her _Memoirs of an Idealist_; his book on Wagner; absence from Bayreuth rehearsals; at Bayreuth festivals; his distress; failure of eyesight; visit to Fräulein von Meysenbug at Naples; sees Wagner at Sorrento; isolates himself; life at Naples; his veneration for Mazzini; leaves Naples; takes cure at Rosenlaui; friendship with Rée; _Human, All Too Human,_; impression of _Parsifal,_; his grief over Wagner; resigns professorship; awaits death in Engadine; returns to Naumburg; terrible sufferings; first visit to Venice and convalescence; at Genoa; publication of _The Dawn of Day,_; at Sils-Maria; conceives the Eternal Return at Sils-Maria; the discovery of _Carmen_; Nietzsche and Lou Salomé; his quarrel with Rée and Lou; the poem of Zarathustra; the principle of the Superman; attempts to complete his poem; friendship with Heinrich von Stein; joined by Lanzky at Nice; failure to win Stein from Wagnerism; abandons his lyrical work; says farewell to his sister at Naumburg; at Nice; _Beyond Good and Evil,_; his kindness to Peter Gast; visits Rohde at Leipsic; visits his mother at Naumburg; returns to the Engadine; the _Will to Power,_; Taine's letter of praise; prefaces to the _Dawn of Day_ and _The Gay Science_; returns to Nice; as a critic; _The Genealogy of Morals,_; returns to Venice; relations with Rohde; Georges Brandes's letter; design for new work; arrival at Turin; reads _The Laws of Manu_; attack on Wagner; the _Antichrist_: _Ecce Homo_; his opinion of Strindberg; loss of reason; death of Nietzsche, Lisbeth (Förster-Nietzsche); with Nietzsche at Naumburg; with Nietzsche at Lugano; with Nietzsche at Flimms; with Nietzsche at Basle; accompanies Nietzsche to Engadine; marriage of; reconciliation with Nietzsche;