Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

Verona, Italy’s “City of Love,” is midway on the Trenitalia Frecciarossa train line between Venice and Milan…while Verona’s literary legacy lies between William Shakespeare and Dante Alighieri. Dante ...

The mild romantic lovers show the lowest intensity of romantic love, obsessive thinking, commitment and frequency of sex. They make up 20.02% of the population and are most commonly heterosexual men.

THERE are two prize novels to engage our attention this week. One is “Desire,” published by Century, a translation by Warre B. Wells of Jean Fayard’s “Mal d’Amour,” which was last year’s selection of ...