Luisa Passerini was Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turin, and iscurrently External Professor at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor in the Oral History Master Program, Columbia University, New York. She has published widely on the historical relationships between the discourse on Europe and the discourses on love, gender and generation, and on memory and subjectivity. She was coeditor of Women Migrants from East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe (Berghahn Books 2007).

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Introduction: Forms of Love and Limits of Europeanness: Intentions and Assumptions

PART I: MALE PORTRAITS

Chapter 1. 'Free Love and Fraternity between the Federated Peoples of Europe': Giorgio Quartara, Supporter of European Integration and Feminism
Chapter 2. 'Love Becomes Entangled with Civilisation': Leo Ferrero, a Young European

PART II: EUROPE'S ROOTS IN LOVE

Chapter 3. Mediterranean Love
Chapter 4. The Heart of Europe: Love in the Western World by Denis de Rougemont

PART III: CONNECTING JEWISHNESS, EUROPEANNESS AND LOVE

Chapter 5. 'Between Two Worlds': Ansky's Dybbuk in France and Italy
Chapter 6. 'Notre Mère l'Europe': Giorgina Levi and Heinz Arian

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