‘The best German book there is.’
~ Nietzsche on Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe.
Italy has Dante, England has Shakespeare, but Germany has — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The former two, however, dedicated their lives almost exclusively to writing, whereas Goethe was an inborn polymath.
One can joke and say that if Dante and Da Vinci had a son, he defin…
