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On Love

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  1. 1Dedication — Introductory Preface to the Translation
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Preface
  4. 4Preface
  5. 5Preface
  6. 6Book I — Chapter I — Of Love
  7. 7Chapter II — Of the Birth of Love
  8. 8Chapter III — Of Hope
  9. 9Chapter IV
  10. 10Chapter V
  11. 11Chapter VI — The Crystals of Salzburg
  12. 12Chapter VII — Differences Between the Birth of Love in the Two Sexes
  13. 13Chapter VIII
  14. 14Chapter IX
  15. 15Chapter X
  16. 16Chapter XI
  17. 17Chapter XII — Further Consideration of Crystallisation
  18. 18Chapter XIII — Of the First Step; of the Fashionable World; of Misf…
  19. 19Chapter XIV
  20. 20Chapter XV
  21. 21Chapter XVI
  22. 22Chapter XVII — Beauty Dethroned by Love
  23. 23Chapter XVIII — Limitations of Beauty
  24. 24Chapter XIX — Limitations of Beauty — (Continued)
  25. 25Chapter XX
  26. 26Chapter XXI — Love at First Sight
  27. 27Chapter XXII — Of Infatuation
  28. 28Chapter XXIII — The Thunderbolt From the Blue
  29. 29Chapter XXIV — Voyage in an Unknown Land
  30. 30Chapter XXV — The Introduction
  31. 31Chapter XXVI — Of Modesty
  32. 32Chapter XXVII — The Glance
  33. 33Chapter XXVIII — Of Feminine Pride
  34. 34Chapter XXIX — Of Women’s Courage
  35. 35Chapter XXX — A Peculiar and Mournful Spectacle
  36. 36Chapter XXXI — Extract From the Diary of Salviati
  37. 37Chapter XXXII — Of Intimate Intercourse
  38. 38Chapter XXXIII
  39. 39Chapter XXXIV — Of Confidences
  40. 40Chapter XXXV — Of Jealousy
  41. 41Chapter XXXVI — Of Jealousy — (Continued)
  42. 42Chapter XXXVII — Roxana
  43. 43Chapter XXXVIII — Of Self-Esteem Piqued
  44. 44Chapter XXXIX — Of Quarrelsome Love
  45. 45Chapter XXXIX — (Part II) — Remedies Against Love
  46. 46Chapter XXXIX — (Part III)
  47. 47Book II
  48. 48Chapter XLI — Of Nations With Regard to Love — France
  49. 49Chapter XLII — France (Continued)
  50. 50Chapter XLIII — Italy
  51. 51Chapter XLIV — Rome
  52. 52Chapter XLV — England
  53. 53Chapter XLVI — England — (Continued)
  54. 54Chapter XLVII — Spain
  55. 55Chapter XLVIII — German Love
  56. 56Chapter XLIX — A Day in Florence
  57. 57Chapter L — Love in the United States
  58. 58Chapter LI — Love in Provence Up to the Conquest of Toulouse, in 13…
  59. 59Chapter LII — Provence in the Twelfth Century
  60. 60Chapter LIII — Arabia
  61. 61Chapter LIV — Of the Education of Women
  62. 62Chapter LV — Objections to the Education of Women
  63. 63Chapter LVI — Objections to the Education of Women (Continued)
  64. 64Chapter LVI — (Part II) on Marriage
  65. 65Chapter LVII — Of Virtue, So Called
  66. 66Chapter LVIII — State of Europe With Regard to Marriage
  67. 67Chapter LIX — Werther and Don Juan
  68. 68Book III — Scattered Fragments
  69. 69Appendix on the Courts of Love
  70. 70Code of Love of the Twelfth Century
  71. 71Note on André le Chapelain
  72. 72Translators’ Notes

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