Nicoletta Pireddu, ed. Paolo Mantegazza, The Physiology of Love and Other Writings. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Physician, anthropologist, travel writer, novelist, politician, Paolo Mantegazza (1831–1910) was probably the most eclectic figure in late 19th-century Italian culture. This volume collects Mantegazza’s representative works, many of them translated into English for the first time. In addition to the unabridged bestseller Physiology of Love (1873), this compilation features Mantegazza’s writings on medicine, his travelogues, his epistolary novel One Day in Madeira (1868), and his treatise on materialistic aesthetics. Replete with an extensive and informative introduction by the editor, The Physiology of Love and Other Writings also excerpts Mantegazza’s works of science fiction, memoir, and social and cultural criticism. As an anthology of the works of Paolo Mantegazza, a writer of diverse topical orientations, this volume is also an account of the circulation of ideas and cross-fertilization of disciplines that defined a crucial period of Italian and European cultural life.
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