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Conversing on Love: Text and Subtext in Tullia d'Aragona's Dialogo della Infinita d'Amore
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 19, Number 4, Fall 2004
- pp. 75-96
- 10.1353/hyp.2004.0071
- Article
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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 Infinità 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.