Physiology of Pleasures: pleasures of the senses, pleasures of the heart, pleasures of the mind

Paolo Mantagatza enjoys a reputation in Italy not only the greatest writer in the field of philosophy, psychology, anthropology and medicine. He was born in Pisa on October 31, 1831 and, after completing the course of an elementary educational institution at eighteen years, dedicated himself to the study of medicine and listened to the lecture in Pisa, Milan and Pavia. In the field of the writer, he joined his life on the 23rd year, and his first essay was "physiology of pleasures".
The essay was met with extraordinary enthusiasm, and in the shortest time the work of a young scientist was translated into all European languages.
The essay is not only a common interest for the entire educational public. It can be useful and outlined in particular for psychologists, painters, sculptors and general artists learning and depicting human types, and, finally, for actors who seek to embody the immortal types of dramatic arts into live images