Thanks for the date! Yeah, I wonder if Voltaire had changed Fritz mind as early as 1742. He doesn't say in 1759 that the change is recent, or does he?
Mind you, Fritz is perfectly capable of liking things even when he objects to all or part of the content, such as when he wrote Heinrich that the St. Augustine (opera?) he attended had beautiful music, and that was all that mattered (and then proceeded to bitch about Augustine).
So I think it's not out of the question the whole love across the border, duty vs romance set up resonated with him.
That is fascinating.
if an opera is supposed to celebrate Fritz the conquering hero over a powerful woman, well, you know what's right there? Alcina
Ahahaha, but then Voltaire will cast Fritz as Alcina. :P
"non humilis mulier", as even Horace, otherwise writing Augustan Propaganda, put it
Okay, so you know much more about the Romans than I do, but in the one semester on Horace and Catullus I had as an undergrad (and I can't claim to have looked at Horace since then), the professor used phrases like "non humilis mulier triumpho," and Horace's use of Latin freedom of word order to juxtapose "mulier" and "triumpho" despite their not being syntactically or semantically linked, to argue that Horace was undermining his Augustan propaganda left and right. The same professor also argued in the Aeneid course that Vergil was undermining *his* propaganda left and right too, and that these guys were massively ambivalent at best about the Augustan program (and many of the Roman poets were outright opposed and thus didn't write propaganda in the first place). Any thoughts?
plays a positive role and ends up with more, not less power, is actually downright layered for what might or might not be going on in his subconscious.
Possible. It's also quite possible he was just thinking at the level of "Caesar = me, YEAAHH!" At this early date, I know he'd been caught off guard by MT's willingness and ability to resist at all, but they haven't been through three wars yet. Honest question: how much of his grudging respect has formed at this date, based on quotes?
Fritz pretending to be baffled at MT having anything against him is Fritzian, but what slays me is when his biographers - or editors like even Mitchell's - follow suit.)
Hahaha, yes.
(Not to mention that Fritz writing to Heinrich, of all the people, how anyone could have a grudge against poor him is hilarious for other reasons.)
Re: "Hot or not" in 1742
Thanks for the date! Yeah, I wonder if Voltaire had changed Fritz mind as early as 1742. He doesn't say in 1759 that the change is recent, or does he?
Mind you, Fritz is perfectly capable of liking things even when he objects to all or part of the content, such as when he wrote Heinrich that the St. Augustine (opera?) he attended had beautiful music, and that was all that mattered (and then proceeded to bitch about Augustine).
So I think it's not out of the question the whole love across the border, duty vs romance set up resonated with him.
That is fascinating.
if an opera is supposed to celebrate Fritz the conquering hero over a powerful woman, well, you know what's right there? Alcina
Ahahaha, but then Voltaire will cast Fritz as Alcina. :P
"non humilis mulier", as even Horace, otherwise writing Augustan Propaganda, put it
Okay, so you know much more about the Romans than I do, but in the one semester on Horace and Catullus I had as an undergrad (and I can't claim to have looked at Horace since then), the professor used phrases like "non humilis mulier triumpho," and Horace's use of Latin freedom of word order to juxtapose "mulier" and "triumpho" despite their not being syntactically or semantically linked, to argue that Horace was undermining his Augustan propaganda left and right. The same professor also argued in the Aeneid course that Vergil was undermining *his* propaganda left and right too, and that these guys were massively ambivalent at best about the Augustan program (and many of the Roman poets were outright opposed and thus didn't write propaganda in the first place). Any thoughts?
plays a positive role and ends up with more, not less power, is actually downright layered for what might or might not be going on in his subconscious.
Possible. It's also quite possible he was just thinking at the level of "Caesar = me, YEAAHH!" At this early date, I know he'd been caught off guard by MT's willingness and ability to resist at all, but they haven't been through three wars yet. Honest question: how much of his grudging respect has formed at this date, based on quotes?
Fritz pretending to be baffled at MT having anything against him is Fritzian, but what slays me is when his biographers - or editors like even Mitchell's - follow suit.)
Hahaha, yes.
(Not to mention that Fritz writing to Heinrich, of all the people, how anyone could have a grudge against poor him is hilarious for other reasons.)
You said it.