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

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’Arag...

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Superior document:Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, Volume 18
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; Volume 18.
Physical Description:1 online resource (339 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.