portrays the poet as a dashing, flame-haired womaniser, mixing high philosophy with simple lust, and dramatises his feverish search for recognition and success as an author.Meanwhile, a string of biographies have revealed, among other things, that piano music and foul apples inspired [Friedrich von] Schiller to write, that a brothel visit probably triggered his first passionate scribblings ("Your glances, when they smile love, could stir marble to life"), and that the loves of his life were two aristocratic sisters to whom he penned a joint love letter.
from The Guardian: Friedrich von Schiller: the Romantic lover
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