Excerpt from Life of Goethe, Vol. 2 Through the Apennines he now travels fast, gathering on his way specimens of limestone and granite. On the road from Lojano to Giredo the thought of writing an Ulysses emf Plum occurs. The restless longing for Rome permits but a three hours' stay in Florence (october Outside Foligno he leaves his veiiurino, meaning to wander on foot to the church of Santa Maria di Minerva on the hill at Assisi in juxta position with this church as its facade a Roman temple of the time of Augustus is preserved. This, the first perfect monu ment of the classic age which he had seen, impressed him deeply with the power of ancient architecture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.