Monday, June 10:
Our friends leave us, to our great regret. They are to see Tristan in Munich. Letters from De Gubernatis in Italy: the subscription he opened has not been successful, because all the newspapers screamed that financial aid must be restricted to Italy, that art is a national affair, and rubbish of that sort.
R. reads Herr von Wilamowitz’s pamphlet and is provoked by it into writing an open letter to Prof. Nietzsche, which he reads to me in the evening. Walk with the composer Svendsen and his wife. In the evening took up Christus again, with ever-mounting sorrow. A great talent has here been almost entirely destroyed.