"The Idyll from Messina" (German: Idyllen aus Messina) is a collection of poems that showcase Nietzsche's passion for poetry. In these verses, he explores various philosophical themes, including the nature of beauty, the experience of solitude, and the quest for meaning. This collection was composed during Nietzsche's stay in Messina, Italy, and reflects his attempt to express his philosophical ideas through the medium of lyrical poetry. An idyll is a short poem describing rustic life in a romanticized way, written in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls. Tolstoy and many other European writers at the time tried to resurrect these ancient styles of writing. This collection was published in Leipzig, Germany, in 1882 by the publishing house E.W. Fritzsch. This is a new 2024 translation from this original 1882 German manuscript containing a new Afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible.