Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, poet, translator, philologist and literary historian, central figure of the dt. Early Romanticism (1767-1845). Letter m. U. "A W v Schlegel". 1 p. Double page with address. Gr. 8vo. Bonn 28.X.1833. To the sculptor Christian Friedrich Tieck, professor at the Berlin Academy of Art, brother Ludwig Tiecks. Letter of recommendation for the Italian poet and writer Giovanni Berchet (1783-1851), whom Schlegel had met in Bonn, "a spirited and educated Italian scholar ... He now comes from Brussels with the Marchese Arconati and his wife, and plans to spend the winter in Berlin. You will connect me if you want to introduce him to your famous artistic friends Rauch, Schinkel and Wach and open him to the Berlin art treasures ..." - Berchet is considered one of the most important representatives of Italian Romanticism. - A portrait of Schlegel's steel engraving.