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[Dave Monroe]

Between October 1911 and May 1912, Rilke stayed at the
Castle Duino, near Trieste, home of Countess Marie of
Thurn and Taxis. There, in 1912, he began the poem
cycle called the Duino Elegies, which would remain
unfinished for a decade due to a long-lasting
creativity crisis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke

... around the 20th or 21st of January 1912 ... Rilke
visited the princess Marie von Thurn und
Taxis-Hohenlohe at the castle Duino just outside
Trieste. He was in a crisis and even considered
psychoanalytical treatment. However, during a walk
alongside the cliffs, sloping some 200 feet down to
the sea, words suddenly came to him: "Wer, wenn ich
schriee, höre mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?"
Rilke was actually contemplating his bookkeeping at
the time, and he knew immediately that this impulse
was the beginning of something remarkable. He took
notes of the words, and during the rest of his stay at
Duino, Rilke wrote the beginnings of most of his ten
elegies.

http://art-bin.com/art/oduinocontents.html

Planted firmly on the last rock spur of the Carso high
above the Gulf of Trieste, hard by the clifftop path
named after the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Castle
is not just another austere stately home.  An unusual
case in Italy, and far more interesting, it is the
living - even vibrant - residence of the princely
family of Torre e Tasso....

http://www.castellodiduino.it/en-lastoria.htm

The Rilke promenade, a path of exceptional and
evocative beauty, has been named after the poet Reiner
Maria Rilke, who wrote his Elegies to Duino during his
long staying in the castle. The new castle of Duino is
uncertainly dated about the year 1400, when the family
Wallsee commanded the construction of a strong war
building. Later on the Wallsee disappeared and the
castle, after having been used as a prison for a
while, became the abode of the Luogar and Hofer. Only
about the end of 800 it became property of the Princes
Thurn und Taxis.....

http://www.ts.camcom.it/ENGLISH/laprovincia/duino_aurisina.htm

The visitors of the Trieste Riviera in the coast
between Duino and Sistiana, are offered the
opportunity to stroll along a path which is unique in
all the Mediterranean coast: the «Rilke Promenade».
It is named after the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, from
Prague, who stayed in the Duino Castle from 1911 to
1912, guest of the Princes della Torre e Tasso:
according to tradition, it was along this path that
Rilke found inspiration for his Duino Elegies....

http://www.ts.camcom.it/ENGLISH/laprovincia/sentierorilke.htm

--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> ... philatalic concerns in "Against the Day".


 
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