Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- 1. Opened Wounds: Winckelmann and the Discovery of the Art of the Ancients -- 2. Fathers and Sons in Italy: The Ghosts of Goethe's Past -- 3. Taking the Words out of the Father's Mouth: Goethe's Authorial Triumph -- 4. On Goethe's Other Trail: Heinrich Heine's Grand De-Tour -- 5. The Return of the Repressed: Nietzsche and Freud -- 6. Goethe's Other Italy: The Devil's Playground -- Epilogue: Birthing Italy -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.