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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226136388
ISBN-139780226136387
eBay Product ID (ePID)633761
Product Key Features
Number of Pages118 Pages
Publication NameDialogue on the Infinity of Love
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory & Surveys / General, Women's Studies, History & Surveys / Renaissance, Europe / General, Movements / Humanism, European / Italian
Publication Year1997
TypeTextbook
AuthorTullia D'aragona
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science, History
SeriesThe Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN96-028841
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal128/.4
Table Of ContentThe Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: Introduction to the Series Introduction by Rinaldina Russell Suggestions for Further Reading Dialogue on the Infinity of Love Preface Dedication Dialogue Index
SynopsisCelebrated as a courtesan and poet, and as a woman of great intelligence and wit, Tullia d'Aragona (1510-56) entered the debate about the morality of love that engaged the best and most famous male intellects of sixteenth-century Italy. First published in Venice in 1547, but never before published in English, Dialogue on the Infinity of Love casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Sexually liberated and financially independent, Tullia d'Aragona dared to argue that the only moral form of love between woman and man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the spiritual needs of humankind. Declaring sexual drives to be fundamentally irrepressible and blameless, she challenged the Platonic and religious orthodoxy of her time, which condemned all forms of sensual experience, denied the rationality of women, and relegated femininity to the realm of physicality and sin. Human beings, she argued, consist of body and soul, sense and intellect, and honorable love must be based on this real nature. By exposing the intrinsic misogyny of prevailing theories of love, Aragona vindicates all women, proposing a morality of love that restores them to intellectual and sexual parity with men. Through Aragona's sharp reasoning, her sense of irony and humor, and her renowned linguistic skill, a rare picture unfolds of an intelligent and thoughtful woman fighting sixteenth-century stereotypes of women and sexuality.
LC Classification NumberBD436.D3713 1997
