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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480004703321

Autore

Leushuis Reinier <1969->

Titolo

Speaking of love : the love dialogue in Italian and French Renaissance literature / / by Reinier Leushuis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Nijhoff, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-34371-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, , 0925-7683 ; ; Volume 18

Disciplina

840.926

Soggetti

Dialogues, Italian - History and criticism

Dialogues, French - History and criticism

Italian literature - 16th century - History and criticism

Italian literature - 17th century - History and criticism

French literature - 16th century - History and criticism

French literature - 17th century - History and criticism

Love in literature

Renaissance - Italy

Renaissance - France

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Thought, Speech, and the Poetics of Love in Renaissance Dialogue Theory -- The Mimesis of Love: Dialogue and Poetics in Sperone Speroni’s Dialogo d’amore -- The Infinite Practice of Amorous Speaking: Tullia d’Aragona and the Venetian poligrafi -- Toward a French Love Dialogue: Philosophy and Literary Mimesis in Translations and Emulations by Claude Gruget, Pontus de Tyard, and Louis Le Caron -- “À l’imitation . . . d’un Bembe j’ay un peu voulu fourvoyer de ma course encommencée”. Innovation and Gender in French Love Dialogues: Claude de Taillemont, Etienne Pasquier, Marguerite de Navarre, and Louise Labé -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

Re-evaluating the dialogue’s place in the literary landscape of the Italian and French Renaissance, Speaking of Love presents the love dialogue at the intersection of a revival of the form and the period’s philosophies of love and desire. Between 1540 and 1580, authors such as Speroni, Tullia d’Aragona, the Venetian poligrafi, Tyard, Le Caron, Pasquier, Taillemont, Marguerite de Navarre, and Louise Labé, feature interlocutors not only deliberating on love but imitating the experience of love in their dynamics of speaking. These love dialogues allow early modern ideologies and discourses of love to be imitated by the reader and rival lyric poetry in conveying amorous experience, validating dialogue as an authentic literary form rather than a tool of philosophical thinking.