Goethe and Anna Amalia

In this study Ghibellino sets out to show that the platonic relationship between Goethe and Charlotte von Stein--lady-in-waiting to Anna Amalia, the Dowager Duchess of Weimar--was used as part of a cover-up for Goethe's intense and prolonged love relationship with the Duchess Anna Amalia herself. The book attempts to uncover a hitherto closely guarded state secret and one of the very great loves stories in European history--to rank with that of Dante and Beatrice, and Petrarch and Laura.