Book Description

This copyright protected translation of a work, published in 1891 in German and printed in Fraktur (a particular font widely used in the nineteenth century Germanic literature), is the first in the world at the time of its publication. This historical novel, a classic of the nineteenth-century romantic literature, exhibits, through a fictional plot, different aspects of the enigmatic nature of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. It exposes, based on actual events, a woman writer’s point of view, a contemporary poet of this monarch. Johanna BALTZ could therefore figure out the profound motives of this genuine Art Patron that king Ludwig II was. Indeed, reading these fictitious letters that the king could have actually written, one gets a more accurate picture of the psychological portrait of this exceptional man that many historians have tried to portray without success.