First 30 pages. The poor teenager from Genoa went to the United States alone to find his mother who went there to earn money. Because the family is poor, her mother goes there to earn money. In The Education of Love, the first 30 pages are Ma Wanli's pursuit of his mother. The Education of Love (formerly known as Heart) is a diary novel written by the Italian writer Edmund de Amicis, which was first published in 1886.