Footnote [23] Leben, vol. iv. p. 140.]
Footnote [24] Contessa and Koreff are strikingly portrayed in the Serapionsbrüder (vol. ii.), the former as "Sylvester," the latter as "Vincenz.">[
Footnote [25] The sexual relations are handled in a mystical, sensuous way; something of the same kind of treatment occurs again in Das Elementargeist.]
Footnote [26] Leben, vol. iv. pp. 118-120.]
Footnote [27] Leben, iii. pp. 120-123; iv. p. 60.]
Footnote [28] "Behold the lot of mankind--joy to-day, to-morrow grief," Walther von Eschenbach's Parzival, ii. 103, ll. 23, 24.]
Footnote [29] Serapionsbrüder, vol. ii., Introduction to part iv.]