Saturday, August 22:
Where shall I get with my eagerness! Still the monkish lust? Shall not your work stand surety for men? And what men? I know them only as a monk does! There, in priestly pride, lurks the devil: him I must ban! — I shall take a wife and Catharina it shall be.
Wedding: Lukas Kranach, (Melancht) — guests. — Music. ‘Who loves not wine, women and song’. —
Jovial tendency towards aims of German ‘Renaissance’ through philosophy, poetry and music — foreshadowed in the development of Protestantism and popularly expressed through Luther’s marriage. —