# Book of Love

An audiobook by Paolo Mantegazza, read by LibriVox volunteers (8 h 16 min, English).

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

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/13117)
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## Chapters

0. Foreword (8:32): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_00_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
1. Introduction, I (15:32): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_01_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
2. Introduction, II (14:41): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_02_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
3. Chapter I - Love in Plants and Animals, I (12:50): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_03_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
4. Chapter I - Love in Plants and Animals, II (6:42): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_04_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
5. Chapter I - Love in Plants and Animals, III (9:21): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_05_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
6. Chapter II - Morning Crepuscules of Love, I (19:52): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_06_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
7. Chapter II - Morning Crepuscules of Love, II (19:47): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_07_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
8. Chapter II - Morning Crepuscules of Love, III (14:59): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_08_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
9. Chapter III - The First Weapons of Love, Courtship (18:54): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_09_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
10. Chapter IV - Modesty (14:04): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_10_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
11. Chapter V - The Virgin, I (10:06): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_11_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
12. Chapter V - The Virgin, II (13:06): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_12_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
13. Chapter VI - Conquest and Voluptuousness (10:20): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_13_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
14. Chapter VII - How Love is Preserved and How It Dies, I (14:25): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_14_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
15. Chapter VII - How Love is Preserved and How It Dies, II (13:22): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_15_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
16. Chapter VIII - The Depths and the Heights of Love, I (8:26): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_16_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
17. Chapter VIII - The Depths and the Heights of Love, II (14:58): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_17_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
18. Chapter IX - Sublime Puerilities of Love (8:21): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_18_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
19. Chapter X - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to the Senses, I (15:01): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_19_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
20. Chapter X - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to the Senses, II (8:37): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_20_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
21. Chapter XI - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Other Sentiments - Jealousy, I (13:16): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_21_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
22. Chapter XI - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Other Sentiments - Jealousy, II (13:01): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_22_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
23. Chapter XII - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Thought (20:27): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_23_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
24. Chapter XIII - Chastity in its Relations to Love (8:42): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_24_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
25. Chapter XIV - Love in Sex (18:26): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_25_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
26. Chapter XV - Love and Age, I (10:39): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_26_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
27. Chapter XV - Love and Age, II (12:17): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_27_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
28. Chapter XVI - Love in Relation to Temperaments - Of the Ways of Loving, I (10:10): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_28_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
29. Chapter XVI - Love in Relation to Temperaments - Of the Ways of Loving, II (14:11): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_29_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
30. Chapter XVII - The Hell of Love, I (14:00): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_30_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
31. Chapter XVII - The Hell of Love, II (12:51): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_31_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
32. Chapter XVIII - The Degradations of Love, I (12:33): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_32_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
33. Chapter XVIII - The Degradations of Love, II (14:06): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_33_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
34. Chapter XIX - Faults and Crimes of Love (20:36): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_34_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
35. Chapter XX - Rights and Duties of Love (16:41): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_35_mantegazza_64kb.mp3
36. Chapter XXI - The Covenants of Love (12:05): https://archive.org/download/book_of_love_2009_librivox/bookoflove_36_mantegazza_64kb.mp3