Chapter Lorenzo to Lotte of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Lothario, a noble cavalier of Florence, the friend of Anselmo. Anselmo induced him to put the fidelity of his wife Camilla to the test, that he might rejoice in her incorruptible virtue; but Camilla was not trial- proof, and eloped with Lothario. Anselmo then died of grief, Lothario was slain in battle, and Camilla died in a convent.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, I. iv. 5, 6 (“Fatal Curiosity,” 1605).

Lothario, a young Genoese nobleman, “haughty, gallant, gay, and perfidious.” He seduced Calista, daughter of Sciolto a Genoese nobleman, and was killed in a duel by Altamont the husband. This is the “gay Lothario,” which has become a household word for a libertine and male coquette.—Rowe: The Fair Penitent (1703).

Is this the haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
   —Rowe: The Fair Penitent.

(The Fair Penitent is taken from Massinger’s Fatal Dowry, in which Lothario is called “Novall, Junior.”)

Lothian (Scotland). So called from Llew, second son of Arthur; also called Lotus, and Lothus. Arthur’s eldest son was Urian, and his youngest Arawn.

In some legends, Lothian is made the father of Modred or Medraut, leader of the rebellious army which fought at Camlan, A.D. 537, in which Arthur received his death-wound; but in Malory’s collection, called The History of Prince Arthur, Modred is called the son of Arthur by his own sister the wife of king Lot.

Lothrop (Amy), the assumed name of Anna B. Warner, younger sister of Susan Warner, who published The Wide Wide World under the name of Elizabeth Wetherell.

Lotte , a young woman of strong affection and domestic winning ways, the wife of Albert a young German farmer. Werther loved Lotte when she was only betrothed to Albert, and continued to love her after she became a young wife. His mewling and puling after this “forbidden fruit,” which terminates in suicide, make up the sum and substance of the tale, which is told in the form of letters addressed to divers persons.—Goethe: Sorrows of Werther (1774).

(“Lotte” was Charlotte Buff, who married Kestner, Goethe’s friend, the “Albert” of the novel. Goethe was in love with Charlotte Buff, and her marriage with Kestner soured the temper of his over-sensitive mind.)