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Book of Love

Public domain audiobook

Book of Love

by Paolo Mantegazza

English· 08:15:57· 37 chapters
Translated from Italian, it delves into the physiology of love from a scientific standpoint, in beautiful writing.

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Foreword

    08:32
  2. Chapter 2

    Introduction, I

    15:32
  3. Chapter 3

    Introduction, II

    14:41
  4. Chapter 4

    Chapter I - Love in Plants and Animals, I

    12:50
  5. Chapter 5

    Chapter I - Love in Plants and Animals, II

    06:42
  6. Chapter 6

    Chapter I - Love in Plants and Animals, III

    09:21
  7. Chapter 7

    Chapter II - Morning Crepuscules of Love, I

    19:52
  8. Chapter 8

    Chapter II - Morning Crepuscules of Love, II

    19:47
  9. Chapter 9

    Chapter II - Morning Crepuscules of Love, III

    14:59
  10. Chapter 10

    Chapter III - The First Weapons of Love, Courtship

    18:54
  11. Chapter 11

    Chapter IV - Modesty

    14:04
  12. Chapter 12

    Chapter V - The Virgin, I

    10:06
  13. Chapter 13

    Chapter V - The Virgin, II

    13:06
  14. Chapter 14

    Chapter VI - Conquest and Voluptuousness

    10:20
  15. Chapter 15

    Chapter VII - How Love is Preserved and How It Dies, I

    14:25
  16. Chapter 16

    Chapter VII - How Love is Preserved and How It Dies, II

    13:22
  17. Chapter 17

    Chapter VIII - The Depths and the Heights of Love, I

    08:26
  18. Chapter 18

    Chapter VIII - The Depths and the Heights of Love, II

    14:58
  19. Chapter 19

    Chapter IX - Sublime Puerilities of Love

    08:21
  20. Chapter 20

    Chapter X - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to the Senses, I

    15:01
  21. Chapter 21

    Chapter X - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to the Senses, II

    08:37
  22. Chapter 22

    Chapter XI - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Other Sentiments - Jealousy, I

    13:16
  23. Chapter 23

    Chapter XI - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Other Sentiments - Jealousy, II

    13:01
  24. Chapter 24

    Chapter XII - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Thought

    20:27
  25. Chapter 25

    Chapter XIII - Chastity in its Relations to Love

    08:42
  26. Chapter 26

    Chapter XIV - Love in Sex

    18:26
  27. Chapter 27

    Chapter XV - Love and Age, I

    10:39
  28. Chapter 28

    Chapter XV - Love and Age, II

    12:17
  29. Chapter 29

    Chapter XVI - Love in Relation to Temperaments - Of the Ways of Loving, I

    10:10
  30. Chapter 30

    Chapter XVI - Love in Relation to Temperaments - Of the Ways of Loving, II

    14:11
  31. Chapter 31

    Chapter XVII - The Hell of Love, I

    14:00
  32. Chapter 32

    Chapter XVII - The Hell of Love, II

    12:51
  33. Chapter 33

    Chapter XVIII - The Degradations of Love, I

    12:33
  34. Chapter 34

    Chapter XVIII - The Degradations of Love, II

    14:06
  35. Chapter 35

    Chapter XIX - Faults and Crimes of Love

    20:36
  36. Chapter 36

    Chapter XX - Rights and Duties of Love

    16:41
  37. Chapter 37

    Chapter XXI - The Covenants of Love

    12:05