Even the fourteen-year-old Thomas Mann referred to himself as a lyrical-dramatic poet. This volume of the comprehensive annotated Frankfurt edition addresses this aspect of his work and presents, as a great rarity, all the poems, the film works, and especially the Renaissance drama 'Fiorenza', which was published in book form in 1905 and premiered in 1907. The extensive commentary reveals the immense richness and diversity - biographical backgrounds, aesthetic, temporal, and ideological historical traditions - that flow into this lyrical drama, making 'Fiorenza' a particularly artistic text in Thomas Mann's early work.