Italian Journey is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's report on his travels to Italy from 1786 to 1788 that was published in 1816 & 1817. The book is based on Goethe's diaries and is smoothed in style, lack
Goethe in the Roman Campagna. by J. H. W. Tischbein (1787)
Casa di Goethe, once Tischbein's flat, today a museum on the Italian Journey in Via del Corso 18, Rome
Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Angelica Kauffmann, 1787
The Gulf of Naples with a view of Vesuvius, by Goethe's artist friend Christoph Heinrich Kniep
The Alban Hills are the caldera remains of a quiescent volcanic complex in Italy, located 20 km southeast of Rome and about 24 km north of Anzio. The 950 m high Monte Cavo forms a highly visible peak
Monte Cavo (the Alban Mount) and Alban Lake
Aerial view showing the main caldera and several secondary ones around the rim
Louis Gurlitt, Alban Hills (1850)