| Contents | reports on the dinner with Fürst and Fürstin Bülow in Villa Malta, Rome, last night; Professor [Ernst] Steinmann attended, Mr. [Emil] and Mrs. Zürcher and Warburg; Villa Malta is a huge house, magnificently furnished; Bülow was full of concentration, pale, caustic, showed his vast education in the conversation; the Duchess was charming despite her old age; they talked about their literary enemies Carl Spitteler, [Romain] Rolland, [Emil] Verhaeren, about realpolitik, international treaties; Bülow mentioned [Adolf von] Harnack, who was scathing about Russia and Serbia, on the slogan '...48 Professoren, deutsches Reich du bist verloren' (the professors of 1848, German Reich, you are lost), which Bülow heard growing up in Frankfurt am Main; Bülow ate very little, strict diet; Warburg told what he had heard on the train journey from Florence; Warburg told Bülow political news which his friend von Mannhardt had sent him from M.F. [Marchese Farinola]; Bülow seemed very interested; after dinner the Duchess talked about Nietzsche, Lou Salome, [Paul] Rée and [Malwida von] Meysenburg; on discipline and German organisation; modern Italy was the result of revolutions against backward princes, Bülow recognized that Warburg understood the Italians after he explained their 'dyspepsia' against that which is actually genuinely 'Roman', their will for organisation; they did not talk about the general political situation, everybody knew where the difficulties were, with the Austrians and their conviction not to withdraw from Trient; they have to continue saying that Italy will stay neutral; the Austrians are driving too hard a bargain; in the morning he had lunch with Graf Giacchi, mentions a Sicilian deputy di L., Giolitti; Warburg is quite clear that Austria has to be forced to redraw the border, otherwise the Monarchy cannot last; tells Mary that she is only allowed to show the letter to Wilhelm [Hertz]; thinks that a treaty between Italy and Austria is imminent; signed with greetings by [Paul Gustav] Hübner and Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia |