
Dialogue on the Infinity of Love
Tullia d'Aragona(Author)
University of Chicago Press
Published on 15. March 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
118 pages
978-0-226-13639-4 (ISBN)
Description
First published in Venice in 1547, this work casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Tullia d'Aragona argued that the only moral form of love between a woman and a man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the spiritual needs of humankind. Declaring sexual drives to be fundamentally irrepressible and blameless, she sought to challenge the Platonic and religious orthodoxy of her time, which condemed all forms of sensual experience, denied the rationality of women, and relegated femininity to the realm of physicality and sin. Human beings, the book asserts, consist of body and soul, sense and intellect, and honourable love must be based on this real nature. Aragona vindicates all women, proposing a morality of love that restores them to intellectual and sexual parity with men.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-13639-4 (9780226136394)
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Dialogue on the Infinity of Love
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Rinaldina Russell is professor of European Languages at Queens College, New York. Bruce Merry is professor of Modern Languages at John Cook University of North Queensland, Australia.