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Intensiv tauschen sich Wilhelmine von Bayreuth und Friedrich II. von Preußen über die vielfältigen Reiseerfahrungen der Markgräfin während ihrer Grand Tour in Italien im Jahr 1755 aus. Dabei werden in den hier ausgewählten 37 Briefen neben wechselseitigen Bekundungen von Sorge und Zuneigung immer wieder Divergenzen vor allem in der Einschätzung der politischen und kulturellen Lage Italiens erkennbar. »Italy Surpasses Everything I Was Told About It«: Wilhelmine of Bayreuth and Frederick II of Prussia exchanged views intensively about the Margravine's diverse travel experiences during her Grand Tour in Italy in 1755. In the 37 letters selected here, alongside mutual expressions of concern and affection differences repeatedly emerge - particularly in their views on the political and cultural situation in Italy.
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Günter Berger is professor emeritus and author. After his PhD in Classical Philology (1971) at his Alma Mater the University of Cologne and his habilitation in Romance literary studies at the University of Bielefeld (1979), he held a full professorship of French and Italian literary studies at the University of Bayreuth from 1986 to 2012. His main areas of research include the French Enlightenment and the French-German cultural transfer. His most relevant publications in this field regard the French Encyclopedia (2013), the correspondences of Countess Caroline of Hessen-Darmstadt with Frederick II, King of Prussia and Amalia of Prussia (2015), and Margravine Wilhelmine of Bayreuth with Voltaire (2023), biographies of Duchess Louise Dorothea of Saxony-Gotha (2017, together with Bärbel Raschke), Margravine Wilhelmine of Bayreuth (2018), and the Jean- Philippe Baratier, the »Child prodigy of Schwabach« (2021).
