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Title: Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern

Author: Edgar Saltus

Release Date: May 24, 2010 [EBook #32512]

Language: English

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MARY MAGDALEN
THE POMPS OF SATAN
IMPERIAL PURPLE
THE ANATOMY OF NEGATION
THE PERFUME OF EROS
VANITY SQUARE

HISTORIA AMORIS

_A History of Love
Ancient and Modern_

_By_
EDGAR SALTUS

NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
MCMVI

_Copyright 1906
By EDGAR SALTUS_

HISTORIA AMORIS

PART ONE

I Super Flumina Babylonis 1

II The Curtains of Solomon 10

III Aphrodite Urania 28

IV Sappho 41

V The Age of Aspasia 53

VI The Banquet 65

VII Roma-Amor 75

VIII Antony and Cleopatra 87

IX The Imperial Orgy 97

X Finis Amoris 110

PART TWO

I The Cloister and the Heart 125

II The Pursuivants of Love 138

III The Parliaments of Joy 150

IV The Doctors of the Gay Science 164

V The Apotheosis 177

VI Bluebeard 191

VII The Renaissance 198

VIII Love in the Seventeenth Century 213

IX Love in the Eighteenth Century 237

X The Law of Attraction 251

HISTORIA AMORIS

_Part One_

PART I

I

SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS

The first created thing was light. Then life came, then death. In between
was fear. But not love. Love was absent