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2020-09-01
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The Book of Love

Paolo Mantegazza (1831 - 1910)

Translated from Italian, it delves into the physiology of love from a scientific standpoint, in beautiful writing.

Genre(s): Nature, Life Sciences

Language: English

Keyword(s): nature (911), love (336), physiology (7)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Foreword Marta A
 00:08:32
Play 01 Introduction, I Marta A
 00:15:32
Play 02 Introduction, II Marta A
 00:14:41
Play 03 Chapter I - Love in Plants and Animals, I Marta A
 00:12:50
Play 04 Chapter I - Love in Plants and Animals, II Marta A
 00:06:42
Play 05 Chapter I - Love in Plants and Animals, III Marta A
 00:09:21
Play 06 Chapter II - Morning Crepuscules of Love, I Marta A
 00:19:52
Play 07 Chapter II - Morning Crepuscules of Love, II Jim Locke
 00:19:47
Play 08 Chapter II - Morning Crepuscules of Love, III Jim Locke
 00:14:59
Play 09 Chapter III - The First Weapons of Love, Courtship Jim Locke
 00:18:54
Play 10 Chapter IV - Modesty Jim Locke
 00:14:04
Play 11 Chapter V - The Virgin, I Jim Locke
 00:10:06
Play 12 Chapter V - The Virgin, II Jim Locke
 00:13:06
Play 13 Chapter VI - Conquest and Voluptuousness Jim Locke
 00:10:20
Play 14 Chapter VII - How Love is Preserved and How It Dies, I Jim Locke
 00:14:25
Play 15 Chapter VII - How Love is Preserved and How It Dies, II Jim Locke
 00:13:22
Play 16 Chapter VIII - The Depths and the Heights of Love, I Jim Locke
 00:08:26
Play 17 Chapter VIII - The Depths and the Heights of Love, II Jim Locke
 00:14:58
Play 18 Chapter IX - Sublime Puerilities of Love Jim Locke
 00:08:21
Play 19 Chapter X - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to the Senses, I Jim Locke
 00:15:01
Play 20 Chapter X - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to the Senses, II Jim Locke
 00:08:37
Play 21 Chapter XI - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Other Sentiments - Jealousy, I Jim Locke
 00:13:16
Play 22 Chapter XI - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Other Sentiments - Jealousy, II Jim Locke
 00:13:01
Play 23 Chapter XII - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Thought Jim Locke
 00:20:27
Play 24 Chapter XIII - Chastity in its Relations to Love Jim Locke
 00:08:42
Play 25 Chapter XIV - Love in Sex Jim Locke
 00:18:26
Play 26 Chapter XV - Love and Age, I Jim Locke
 00:10:39
Play 27 Chapter XV - Love and Age, II Jim Locke
 00:12:17
Play 28 Chapter XVI - Love in Relation to Temperaments - Of the Ways of Loving, I Jim Locke
 00:10:10
Play 29 Chapter XVI - Love in Relation to Temperaments - Of the Ways of Loving, II Jim Locke
 00:14:11
Play 30 Chapter XVII - The Hell of Love, I Jim Locke
 00:14:00
Play 31 Chapter XVII - The Hell of Love, II Jim Locke
 00:12:51
Play 32 Chapter XVIII - The Degradations of Love, I Jim Locke
 00:12:33
Play 33 Chapter XVIII - The Degradations of Love, II Jim Locke
 00:14:06
Play 34 Chapter XIX - Faults and Crimes of Love Jim Locke
 00:20:36
Play 35 Chapter XX - Rights and Duties of Love Jim Locke
 00:16:41
Play 36 Chapter XXI - The Covenants of Love Jim Locke
 00:12:05