Goethe and Anna Amalia: A Forbidden Love?

In this study Ghibellino sets out to show that the platonic relationship betweenGoethe and Charlotte von Stein - lady-in-waiting to Anna Amalia, the DowagerDuchess of Weimar - was used as part of a cover-up for Goethe's intense and prolongedlove relationship with the Duchess Anna Amalia herself. The book attempts touncover a hitherto closely guarded state secret. Readers convinced by the evidencesupporting Ghibellino's hypothesis will see in it one of the very great love stories inEuropean history - to rank with that of Dante and Beatrice, and Petrarch and Laura.