Friedrich Nietzsche

At their first meeting in Rome in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche greeted the twenty-one-year-old Loandrea-Salomé (1861–1937) with these foreboding words, laden with expectation: "From what two stars have we fallen to meet here?" Indeed, there is no doubt that the stunningly beautiful young woman made a powerful impression on the then thirty-seven-year-old "philosopher of solitude." An impression that p...