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Episode #3: Dialogue on the Infinity of Love by Tulia d’Aragona 

Published by University of Chicago Press as part of The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/OVIEME.html

Edited and Translated by Rinaldina Russell, and Bruce Merry. 

Music from Free Music Archive:

Lady in Waiting [Instrumental] by Kathleen Martin

Excerpts from Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart performed by MIT Symphony Orchestra Soprano: Emily Marvosh from the Album An Opera Evening. 

Tullia d’Aragona read by Vita Wulff: 

Benedetto Varchi rad by Tomaso Thellung: http://www.tomasothellung.blog/

Poet, philosopher, and Courtesan Tullia d’Aragona was born in Rome at the height of the Renaissance to Giulia Campana, herself a courtesan.  This was a golden era for the courtesan that waned over Tullia’s life as the church extended its reach and influence over Italian states one by one. 

Read more about Tullia d’Aragona here: http://www.projectcontinua.org/tullia-d-aragona/

The Dialogue on the Infinity of Love is one of a few surviving examples of Tullia d’Aragona’s work. The Dialogue as a literary form has a long history; the first examples date back to the third millennia BCE from the Mahabrata, and to Plato in the west. The dialogue is a literary form rendered by way of a conversation between two or more people.  Plato’s The Symposium being the most well-known dialogue and perhaps the first to address the subject of love. A subject which was which was explored in numerous dialogues in the Renaissance period. Of all the dialogues we know of from the Mahabrata  onwards, only the Dialogue on the Infinity of Love was written by a woman and explores a feminine view on the subject of love and desire.

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