ABSTRACT
This chapter, an anticipation of a larger research, presents some points of an itinerary through the history of the discourses on love and on Europe which took place in some European countries, namely France, Switzerland, Britain, and Italy, in the 1930s. At the end of August, 1933, a young Italian intellectual, Leo Ferrero, was killed in a car accident on a road of New Mexico. Contemporary with the trend of thought which the author have been constructing under the title 'Europe in love', a sometimes parallel sometimes convergent trend existed, that the author have named 'love in Europe'. In the summer of 1941 a few Italian antifascists, confined in the island of Ventotene, wrote the Manifesto for a free and united Europe. However, in the European authors the people have encountered, there were directions of thought which could be of use in a multicultural and universalistic perspective.
