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Dialogue on the Infinity of Love (Paperback, New edition)
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Dialogue on the Infinity of Love (Paperback, New edition)
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Celebrated 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.
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