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The Book of Love

by Paolo MANTEGAZZA (1831 - 1910)

Chapter IV - Modesty

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

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Listen next episodes of The Book of Love:
Chapter VII - How Love is Preserved and How It Dies, II , Chapter VIII - The Depths and the Heights of Love, II , Chapter X - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to the Senses, II , Chapter XI - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Other Sentiments - Jealousy, II , Chapter XVI - Love in Relation to Temperaments - Of the Ways of Loving, II , Chapter XVIII - The Degradations of Love, II , Chapter IX - Sublime Puerilities of Love , Chapter V - The Virgin, I , Chapter V - The Virgin, II , Chapter VI - Conquest and Voluptuousness , Chapter VII - How Love is Preserved and How It Dies, I , Chapter VIII - The Depths and the Heights of Love, I , Chapter X - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to the Senses, I , Chapter XI - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Other Sentiments - Jealousy, I , Chapter XII - Boundaries of Love, and their Relations to Thought , Chapter XIII - Chastity in its Relations to Love , Chapter XIV - Love in Sex , Chapter XIX - Faults and Crimes of Love , Chapter XV - Love and Age, I , Chapter XV - Love and Age, II , Chapter XVI - Love in Relation to Temperaments - Of the Ways of Loving, I , Chapter XVII - The Hell of Love, I , Chapter XVII - The Hell of Love, II , Chapter XVIII - The Degradations of Love, I , Chapter XX - Rights and Duties of Love , Chapter XXI - The Covenants of Love