Nietzsche in Rome
Our Blogger: Marcelo
-Did the atmosphere of the Eternal City enchanted even the most acerbic of philosophers to the point of falling in love? Marcelo tells the story.

Due to health problems, Friedrich Nietzsche lead from 1880 until his collapse in January 1889 a gypsy-like existence. Searching for better climates his travels took him through Nice (during the winters), the Swiss alpine village of Sils-Maria (during the summers), Leipzig, Venice, Rapallo, Genoa, Turin, Messina, Florence, and…our beautiful city of Rome.
It was precisely there, in the Eternal City in 1882 that the unexpected happened: He fell in love…
This might be hard to believe if we consider certain sentences like: ‘‘Ah, women: they make the highs higher and the lows more frequent’’ and ‘‘For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.’’
Nevertheless so it was, and probably the undeniable romantic atmosphere of Rome had something to do with it. In 1882 during a visit to Rome, Nietzsche, age thirty-seven, met the young Lou von Salomé (a twenty-one-year-old Russian woman a student of philosophy and theology in Zurich). He soon fell desperately in love with her, and even proposed her to marry him.
She declined.
From that moment Nietzsche’s friendship with her and Mister Paul Rée took a turn for the worse: Salomé and Rée decided to moved to Berlin…and left Nietzsche.
Years after, Salomé would become an associate of… Sigmund Freud! And would write with psychological approach of her relationship with the author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
It is as least part of his harsh view about women explained simply for a broken heart? Maybe, but he carried his pain on philosophically ‘‘That which does not kill us makes us stronger’’ and (what could be seen by many as surprising), with humbleness for ‘‘The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.’’
The philosopher lived what for some would be seen as an unhappy life. But perhaps his most important legacy is that is possible for us transform pain into something beautiful, by a complete “life-affirmation” (central core of his philosophy), a total yes, pain included.
No pain no gain.![]()
If somebody is still skeptical about Nietzsche’s romantic approach here you have a last and maybe unexpected quotation: ‘‘Love is not consolation. It is light.’’
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