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

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 31, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Thought, Speech, and the Poetics of Love in Renaissance Dialogue Theory -- Introduction -- Carlo Sigonio and Torquato Tasso: The Dialectical Turn -- Sperone Speroni: Speech, Drama, and Love in Dialogue -- 2. Mimesis of Love: Dialogue and Poetics in Sperone Speroni's Dialogo d'amore -- 3. Infinite Practice of Amorous Speaking: Tullia d'Aragona and the Venetian poligrafi -- Introduction -- Infinite Speaking in Amorous Dialogue: Tullia d'Aragona's Dialogo della infinita di amore -- Love Dialogue among Venetian literati-lovers: Betussi, Sansovino, and Gottifredi -- Amorous Speaking and the Return to the Ciceronian Model: Betussi and Domenichi -- 4. Toward a French Love Dialogue: Philosophy and Literary Mimesis in Translations and Emulations by Claude Gruget, Pontus de Tyard, and Louis Le Caron -- Introduction -- Translating Speroni and Ebreo: From Paradox to Dialogical Labor of Love -- Dialogue between Amorous Philosophy and Amorous Poetry: Pontus de Tyard's Solitaire premier -- Staging the Speaking Beloved Other: Louis Le Caron's La Claire, ou de la prudence de droit -- 5. "A l'imitation ... d'un Bembe j'ay un peu voulu fourvoyer de ma course encommencee". Innovation and Gender in French Love Dialogues: Claude de Taillemont, Etienne Pasquier, Marguerite de Navarre, and Louise Labe -- Introduction -- Collective Speaking of Love: Adapting and Emulating Bembo's Gli Asolani in France: Claude de Taillemont and Etienne Pasquier -- Toward a Female French Love Dialogue: Marguerite de Navarre's La Coche and Louise Labe's Debat de Fotie et d'Amour -- Conclusion -- Amor ordinem nescit: Montaigne's Dialogue on Love in "Sur des vers de Virgile."

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.

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