LEADER 03899nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910451511403321 005 20210610013429.0 010 $a0-226-13636-1 010 $a1-281-12543-1 010 $a9786611125431 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226136363 035 $a(CKB)1000000000409077 035 $a(EBL)410866 035 $a(OCoLC)44959343 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000138405 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11159138 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000138405 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10100861 035 $a(PQKB)10295323 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC410866 035 $a(DE-B1597)535474 035 $a(OCoLC)824142066 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226136363 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL410866 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10209973 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL112543 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000409077 100 $a19960618d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDialogue on the infinity of love$b[electronic resource] /$fby Tullia d'Aragona ; edited and translated by Rinaldina Russell and Bruce Merry ; introduction and notes by Rinaldina Russell 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1997 215 $a1 online resource (124 p.) 225 1 $aOther voice in early modern Europe 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-13639-6 311 0 $a0-226-13638-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tThe Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: Introduction to the Series --$tIntroduction --$tSuggestions for Further Reading --$tTo the Most excellent Signora Tullia d'Aragona from Muzio Iustinapolitano --$tTo the Most Illustrious Lord Cosimo de' Medici, Duke of Florence - her deeply revered master - from Tullia d'Aragona --$tDialogue on the Infinity of Love --$tIndex 330 $aCelebrated as a courtesan and poet, and as a woman of great intelligence and wit, Tullia d'Aragona (1510-56) entered the debate about the morality of love that engaged the best and most famous male intellects of sixteenth-century Italy. First published in Venice in 1547, but never before published in English, Dialogue on the Infinity of Love casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Sexually liberated and financially independent, Tullia d'Aragona dared to argue that the only moral form of love between woman and man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the spiritual needs of humankind. Declaring sexual drives to be fundamentally irrepressible and blameless, she challenged the Platonic and religious orthodoxy of her time, which condemned all forms of sensual experience, denied the rationality of women, and relegated femininity to the realm of physicality and sin. Human beings, she argued, consist of body and soul, sense and intellect, and honorable love must be based on this real nature. By exposing the intrinsic misogyny of prevailing theories of love, Aragona vindicates all women, proposing a morality of love that restores them to intellectual and sexual parity with men. Through Aragona's sharp reasoning, her sense of irony and humor, and her renowned linguistic skill, a rare picture unfolds of an intelligent and thoughtful woman fighting sixteenth-century stereotypes of women and sexuality. 410 0$aOther voice in early modern Europe. 606 $aLove$vEarly works to 1800 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLove 676 $a128/.4 700 $aAragona$b Tullia d'$fca. 1510-1556.$0200754 701 $aRussell$b Rinaldina$0151956 701 $aMerry$b Bruce$0198497 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451511403321 996 $aDialogue on the infinity of love$92285868 997 $aUNINA