Chapter I: Front Matter

The Book of Love

By

Prof. Dr. Paolo Mantegazza

Professor of Anthropology and General Pathology, Founder of the first Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Italy, Senator of the Kingdom of Italy

_A translation of_

The Physiology of Love

_from the Italian text_

American-Neo-latin Library

New York, N. Y.

PAOLO MANTEGAZZA, Italian physiologist and anthropologist, was born at Monza in 1831. He travelled extensively in Europe, India and America. He was appointed surgeon at Milan Hospital and Professor of General Pathology at Pavia. In 1870 he was nominated Professor of Anthropology at the Istituto di Studii Superiori, Florence. He founded the first Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Italy, and the Italian Anthropological Society. He was deputy for Monza in the Italian Parliament from 1865 to 1876, subsequently being elected to the Senate. He is the author of many well known works, as "The Physiology of Sorrow," "The Physiology of Pleasure," "Elements of Hygiene," "Pictures of Human Nature," "Human Ecstasies," "Head," etc. His books are most popular in Europe, where they have been translated into almost every language and have reached an enormous circulation. Paolo Mantegazza ranks with the greatest European medical authorities and the most brilliant Italian writers.

Copyright, 1917, by THE AMERICAN--NEO-LATIN LIBRARY

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION: GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY OF LOVE 13

CHAPTER
I LOVE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS 29

II MORNING CREPUSCULES OF LOVE--THE GOOD AND
EVIL SOURCES OF LOVE 41

III THE FIRST WEAPONS OF LOVE--COURTSHIP 64

IV MODESTY 72

V THE VIRGIN 79

VI CONQUEST AND VOLUPTUOUSNESS 89

VII HOW LOVE IS PRESERVED AND HOW IT DIES 94

VIII THE DEPTHS AND THE HEIGHTS OF LOVE 107

IX SUBLIME PUERILITIES OF LOVE 118

X BOUNDARIES OF LOVE--THEIR RELATIONS TO
THE SENSES 122

XI BOUNDARIES OF LOVE--THEIR RELATIONS TO
OTHER SENTIMENTS--JEALOUSY 133

XII BOUNDARIES OF LOVE--THEIR RELATIONS TO THOUGHT 145

XIII CHASTITY IN ITS RELATIONS TO LOVE 155

XIV LOVE IN SEX 158

XV LOVE AND AGE 165

XVI LOVE IN RELATION TO TEMPERAMENTS--OF
THE WAYS OF LOVING 175

XVII THE HELL OF LOVE 186

XVIII THE DEGRADATIONS OF LOVE 198

XIX THE FAULTS AND CRIMES OF LOVE 211

XX THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF LOVE 219

XXI THE COVENANTS OF LOVE 227