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Conversing on Love: Text and Subtext in Tullia d'Aragona's Dialogo della Infinità d'Amore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt
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Abstract

Few philosophical topics are as intertwined with gender questions as the topic of love, which moved center-stage in the diverse literary and philosophical productions of the Renaissance. Situated in the rich cultural environment of Cinquecento, Italy, Tullia d'Aragona's Dialogo della Infinita d'Amore offers not only a unique contribution to Renaissance theories of love, but also forces a reexamination of the aims and methods of communication, and provokes a reflection on philosophy's very own (male) self-conception.

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Hypatia , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , Fall 2004 , pp. 77 - 98
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Copyright © 2004 by Hypatia, Inc.

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