Thursday, September 28:
Went out shortly after 9 in the morning and did not return until 3:30, visited the museum, the university, churches, and palaces. Much pleasure in the Francia pictures; in the museum formed a fairer view of Domenichino and Carracci, though without veneration. A Madonna by Cima very lovely. When painting becomes too violent, fantasy is aroused, speech, the restriction governing all art - the bounds are transgressed and one demands to hear the screams of these tormented people. Thus, in music, drama must be kept for the stage; the greatest genius, such as Titian, extends the boundaries as far as possible, but his figures may still remain silent. The Ninth Symphony is the proof of the human need for speech.
One can gaze upon the preceding painters with great pleasure, but not those who follow after; the furthest boundary was reached by the greatest masters, and those of the greatest talent (Domenichino, Carracci) are forced, as it were, to go beyond it. Left at 2 in the morning, reached Naples at 10 in the evening. Hotel Vittoria; during this long and very tiring journey in immense heat the children remained good-natured; Siegfried in par...