Stolberg: title page, map of Italy.
Caroline and Schelling never abandoned their plan to spend several years in Italy and were planning to travel there by way of Switzerland.
Stolberg’s four volumes notably included not only considerable travelogue material on Switzerland, Italy, and Sicily, but also a supplementary volume, with which Caroline was doubtless familiar, of copper engravings of Swiss and, especially, Italian and Sicilian sites. Caroline’s acquaintance with evocative engravings of the sort found in that volume and elsewhere doubtless colored her notion of what one might expect from a visit or certainly a lengthier stay in Italy, a country already boasting — as also later becomes clear in this correspondence — a “colony” of German travelers and ex-patriot artists, scholars, diplomats, and wives fleeing divorce custody battles for their children.
1. Gruttlin Matte.
Rütli, a mountain meadow in Switzerland on Lake Lucerne.
2. Lauterbrunnen Valley.
Lauterbrunnen Valley in the Swiss canton Bern with picturesque alpine peaks, meadows, and glaciers.
3.Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican in Rome.
4. Campo Vaccino.
The unexcavated Roman Forum, the Campo Vaccino, or “Cow Pasture.”
5. The Coliseum in Rome.
6. The Coliseum in Rome, external view.
7. The Pantheon in Rome.
8. The Pantheon in Rome, interior view.
9. Grotta di Matromania.
The “grotta di matromania,” a natural cave on the island of Capri associate with the cult of Mithras.
10. Valley near Sorrento in southern Italy.
11. The Temple of Neptune in Paestum on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in southern Italy.
12. Vintners’ Huts on the Adriatic.
13. Vintners’ Huts on the Adriatic.
14. Area around Trapani on the west coast of Sicily.
15. Temple Ruins in Segesta in Sicily.
16. The Great Chestnut Tree on Mount Aetna on the east coast of Sicily.
17. The Island of Ischia.
