Produced by Turgut Dincer, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) 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. [Illustration: "PROFANE LOVE" _By Caravaggio_ _Berlin Museum_] 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 PAGE 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