Die Bäder von Lucca embroiled Heine in controversy. The aristocratic poet August von Platen had been annoyed by some epigrams by Immermann which Heine had included in the second volume of Reisebilder. He counter-attacked by writing a play, Der romantische Ödipus, which included anti-Semitic jibes about Heine. Heine was stung and responded by mocking Platen's homosexuality in Die Bäder von Lucca. This back-and-forth ad hominem literary polemic has become known as the .
Die Bäder von Lucca embroiled Heine in controversy The aristocratic poet August von Platen had been annoyed by some epigrams by Immermann which Heine had included in the second volume of Reisebilder He counter-attacked by writing a play Der romantische Ödipus which included anti-Semitic jibes about Heine Heine was stung and responded by mocking Platen's homosexuality in Die Bäder von Lucca This back-and-forth ad hominem literary polemic has become known as the 