Word: thurn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leukemia in Switzerland in 1926; the events in between are almost ac counted for by the names of the countries he visited or lived in (Germany, France, Russia, Spain, Italy) and the handful of friends he made-the most important of them women. These ladies included the Princess of Thurn and Taxis and the fabulous Lou AndreasSalome, who was his elder by 14 years and who deeply impressed-besides the poet-Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. His love for Lou Andreas was a lifelong though mostly distant affair, interrupted briefly, as Biographer von Salis dryly observes, by his marriage...
...Switzerland he attained a sort of civic asylum. Patronesses supplied chalets and chateaux. He completed the Duino Elegies, begun at Princess Thurn and Taxis' castle on the Adriatic near Trieste; she celebrated the event with a ceremonious visit, during which the poet recited the whole work...