Philopator was devoted to orgiastic forms of religion and literary dilettantism. It was the flowering of geographic dilettantism. Notions of "professionalism" and "dilettantism" were questioned. Their leader, Mrs. J. Duro Pampinelli, is a brilliant caricature of self-indulgent dilettantism. With the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, Wilhelmine's interests shifted from dilettantism to diplomacy.