Diotima: Romantic Drama

This is a play by the author of Purgatorio, In the Twilight, and In the Land of Myth.
This drama takes place in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century, a period highlighted by the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon, while in German lands the arts blossomed as never before in Europe since the golden ages of ancient Greece. The protagonists of this play are the poet Friedrich Hölderlin and his deeply beloved Diotima, with their encounter...