The love of genius. From Catullus to John Lennon

The love of people creative often turned out all sorts of rumors. Often, the crowd did not accept, condemned and drove their former idols, and sometimes excelled and forgot everyone. The time went, and the apparent was forgotten, the prose of life germinated with high poetry, and ordinary, earth women became muses in novels, plays, verses and paintings. The well-known scientist and writer Vladimir Babenko, who has dedicated many years to the study of world culture, relies in its study on historical documents, letters of artists and their beloved, numerous evidence of their friends and enemies. His book tells about the love passion, which creates masterpieces, then the ruthless breaking destiny of geniuses