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Love -- Early works to 1800

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• Dialoghi di Amore (in Italian; Venice: G. de' Cavalli, 1565), by León Hebreo
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Andreae Capellani Regii Francorum De Amore Libri Tres (in Latin; Copenhagen: In Lib. Gadiana, 1892), by Andreas Capellanus, ed. by E. Trojel
  • color PDF in Denmark; 70 MB
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Phaedrus, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Symposium, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)

• The Spirit of Love, by William Law (HTML at CCEL)
• Treatise on the Love of God, by Saint Francis de Sales (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Revelations of Divine Love (language somewhat modernized), by Julian of Norwich, ed. by G. Warrack (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Shewings of Julian of Norwich, by Julian of Norwich, ed. by Georgia Ronan Crampton (frame-dependent HTML at Rochester)
• The Fire of Love and The Mending of Life, by Richard Rolle, trans. by Richard Misyn (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage (c2014), by Renata Grossi (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
• The Love That Does Justice: Spiritual Activism in Dialogue with Social Science (2008), ed. by Michael A. Edwards and Stephen G. Post (PDF at unlimitedloveinstitute.org)
• Love or Perish (expanded edition; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957), by Smiley Blanton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Four Loves (c1960), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Ananga-Ranga (Cosmopoli: Kama Shastra society of London and Benares, 1885), trans. by Richard Francis Burton (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Every Woman's Book: or, What is Love? (London: R. Carlile, 1828), by Richard Carlile (page images at LSE)
• Falling in Love and Loving, by Francesco Alberoni (PDF at alberoni.it)
• The Great Word (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (searchable page images at Google; US access only)
• I Love You (A Theory of Love), by Francesco Alberoni (PDF at alberoni.it)
• Il Trattato dell'Amore Humano di Flaminio Nobili, con le Postille Autografe di Torquato Tasso, Pubblicato da Pier Desiderio Pasolini, in Occasione del Terzo Centenario dalla Morte del Poeta (in Italian; Rome: E. Loescher, 1895), by Flaminio Nobili, ed. by Pier Desiderio Pasolini, contrib. by Torquato Tasso (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Kama Sutra, by Vātsyāyana, trans. by Richard Francis Burton (HTML at Bibliomania)
• Love and Ethics (New York: B. W. Huebsch, c1911), by Ellen Key
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Philosophy of Love (Auburn, NY: Authors' Press, c1923), by Elinor Glyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Platonick Discourse Upon Love (London: Grant Richards, c1914), by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, ed. by Edmund G. Gardner, trans. by Thomas Stanley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primitive Love and Love-Stories (1899), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
• Vom Kosmogonischen Eros (second edition, in German; Jena: E. Diederichs, 1926), by Ludwig Klages (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• To Love is To Be Happy With, by Barry Neil Kaufman (HTML at option.org)
• Vom Kosmogonischen Eros (in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1922), by Ludwig Klages (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Liebesleben in der Natur: Eine Entwickelungsgeschichte der Liebe (in German; Jena: E. Diederichs, 1921), by Wilhelm Bölsche (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sex and Love, by Francesco Alberoni (PDF at alberoni.it)
• This Passion Called Love (Auburn, NY: Authors' Press, c1925), by Elinor Glyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Medieval in the Renaissance (2 volumes), by Vernon Lee
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Love as the Foundation of Moral Education and Character Development, ed. by Luis Ugalde, Nicholas Barros, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)

• Books of Interest and Consolation to Spinsters (1904), by Lutie Eugenia Stearns (page images at Ohio Memory)

• Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Michael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Heartstopper (original online serial version; basis for five print books), by Alice Oseman (page images at Tumblr and Tapas)

• In Vino Veritas (The Banquet), by Søren Kierkegaard, trans. by Lee M. Hollander (HTML at CCEL)

• Northern Love: An Exploration of Canadian Masculinity (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), by Paul Nonnekes (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Michael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Andreae Capellani Regii Francorum De Amore Libri Tres (in Latin; Copenhagen: In Lib. Gadiana, 1892), by Andreas Capellanus, ed. by E. Trojel
  • color PDF in Denmark; 70 MB
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1894), by Annie S. Swan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Fascinating Womanhood, or, The Art of Attracting Men: A Practical Course of Lessons in the Underlying Principles By Which Women Attract Men, Leading to the Proposal and Culminating in Marriage (8 volumes; St. Louis: The Psychology Press, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• This Passion Called Love (Auburn, NY: Authors' Press, c1925), by Elinor Glyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Divine Love and Wisdom (multiple translations), by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Ager edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com
  • Rogers edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com
  • Harley and Harley edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com

• Desiring God: Meditations of A Christian Hedonist (1996 edition), by John Piper (frame-dependent HTML at desiringgod.org)
• St. Teresa's Own Words: or, Instructions on The Prayer of Recollection, by Saint Teresa of Avila (multiple formats at archive.org)
• When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy, by John Piper (PDF with commentary at desiringgod.org)
• Treatise on the Love of God, by Saint Francis de Sales (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Way of Perfection, and Conceptions of Divine Love (London: C. Dolman, 1852), by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by John Dalton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Letters Concerning the Love of God (London: J. Norris, Printed by S. Manship and R. Wilkin, 1695), by John Norris and Mary Astell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Way of Perfection, by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)

• A Remedy for Wandering Thoughts in the Worship of God (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1835), by Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.