Faustinas Küsse

The Roman drifter Giovanni Beri is currently enjoying a plate of macaroni and dreaming of his next glass of wine. Suddenly, he notices a traveler. The strange man gestures in the middle of the Piazza del Popolo as if all of Rome has been waiting for him. Who is this man, an eccentric nobleman, a lawyer, or even a spy? Beri, who besides his odd jobs also provides the Vatican fathers with information, decides to take a closer look at the peculiar foreigner. But before he knows it, Beri not only loses track of things but also his beloved Faustina, and precisely to the man he is observing, the most famous of all travelers to Italy: Goethe. On September 3, 1786, at three in the morning, so that no one notices his departure, Goethe sneaks away in a post chaise, taking only a hunting bag and Ma.