German writer Ghibelline caused a sensation with his 2003 biography of Johann Goethe (1749-1832), and here continues his contention that the German writer's love interest was not Charlotte von Stein at all, but her mistress the Dowager Duchess Anna Amali. Part of his thesis is that all those (now published) love letters could not really have been meant for Charlotte. J. W. Goethe und Anna Amalia: Eine verbotene Liebe was published by A.J. Denkena Verlag, Weimar at an undisclosed date. Farrelly (drama studies, U. College Dublin) has done some mild editing as well as translating. Distributed in the US by Dufour Editions. Annotation 2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
