- ^ Goethe's epigraph for the book (Engl. ed.), although originally in German: Auch ich in Arkadien.
- ^ For text references and relevant commentary, cf. the specialist Folio Society edition of Goethe's Italian Journey (hereafter I.J.), London: Folio Society (2010) – translated and introduced by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, published by arrangement with their estates, and HarperCollins Publishers (1962 ed.). Excerpts from I.J. are translated from the original German text, available at Project Gutenberg, Italienische Reise.
- ^ Cf. "Introduction" by Auden & Mayer (hereinafter A&M), op. cit., pp. xx-xxi.
- ^ In the specific English edition, cit.
- ^ I.J., p. 499: Ovid's Tristia, Book III – Cum subit illius tristissima noctis imago,/Quae mihi supremum tempus in Urbe fuit,/Cum repeto noctem, qua tot mihi cara reliqui;/Labitur ex oculis nunc quoque gutta meis./Iamque quiescebant voces hominumque canumque:/Lunaque nocturnos alta regebat equos./Hanc ego suspiciens, et ab hac Capitolia cernens,/Quae nostro frustra iuncta fuere Lari.
- ^ Cf. A&M, op. cit., pp. xii-xiii.
- ^ Cf. A&M, op. cit., pp. xi-xiv.
- ^ Casa di Goethe
- ^ Cf. A&M, op. cit., pp. xi-xxiii.
- ^ Goethe visited Paestum accompanied by painter Christoph Heinrich Kniep, who was introduced to him by the artist Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein; Kniep will go with him to Sicily and there produce many drawings for Goethe.
- ^ I.J., p. 116.
- ^ Cf. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bibliography.
- ^ I.J., pp. 121–122.
- ^ Cf. Nicholas Boyle, Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (1749–1790) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
- ^ I.J., p. 198.
- ^ I.J., p. 176.
- ^ I.J., p. 182.
- ^ From Goethe's Italian Journey, London: Folio Society (2010).
- ^ Roberto Zapperi: Das Inkognito. Goethes ganz andere Existenz in Rom. (The incognito. Goethe's very different existence in Rome.) C. H. Beck, Munich 1999, p. 133 f., Nicholas Boyle: Goethe. Der Dichter in seiner Zeit/Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I 1749–1790. 2004, p 663 (German).
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