EPIGRAMS
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Levy, Oscar, Cohn, Paul V. (Paul Victor), and Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Source notes
[1] Translated by Herman Scheffauer.
[2] Translated by Herman Scheffauer.
[3] This poem was written on the betrothal of one of Nietzsche's Bâle friends.—TR.
[4] Translated by Herman Scheffauer.
[5] Campo Santo di Staglieno is the cemetery of Staglieno, near Genoa. The poem was inspired by the sight of a girl with a lamb on the tombstone, with the words underneath— "Pia, caritatevole, amorosissima."
[6] Published by Nietzsche himself. The poem was inspired by a ship that was christened Angiolina, in memory of a love-sick girl who leapt into the sea.—TR.
[7] See above, p. 157. Both poems were inspired by the same tombstone.—TR.
[8] The Genoese is Nietzsche himself, who lived a great part of his life at Genoa.—TR.
[9] Translated by Herman Scheffauer.