Goethe Home - Rome

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's home is on Via del Corso in Rome, Italy. The German writer spent three months in this house, from October 1786 to February 1787, before beginning his noted Italian journey. Fame came early for Goethe with the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, which was published in 1774 when he was just 25. Shortly after, he took up residence in Saxe-Weimar where he spent ten years on the privy council of Duke Carl August. He left this behind in 1786 when he embarked on a journey to Italy. His father had made the same journey years earlier and this in no small part motivated Goethe's decision to take a leave of absence and follow in his father's footsteps. He arrived in Rome in October 1786 and spent the next three months living at this home, spending much of his time with Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, a young German painter also residing here. In February he left Rome for a journey through Italy which took him through the length of the country, into Sicily, and eventually back up into Rome for a second visit to the city. His travels were eventually published in 1816 as Italian Journey, a work based on the diaries he kept while travelling here. The home opened as a museum, Casa di Goethe, in 1997.

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