{"title":"Tullia D'aragona","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the captivating works of Tullia d'Aragona, a Renaissance writer celebrated for her poetry and philosophical dialogues. Delve into her insightful perspectives on love, beauty, and intellect.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sweet-fire-book-tullia-d-aragona-9780807615621","title":"Sweet Fire","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAccompanying Tullia's poems is a series of risposte (responsive letters) written by well-known men of her dayincluding Girolamo Muzio, Benedetto Varchi and Lattanzio Bennucciwho offer poetic tributes to her honor, talent, and wit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these poetic dialogues, Tullia shows herself a match to her male contemporaries in verbal and intellectual dexterity. In a poem written to Piero Manelli, Tullia argues for a female poet's equal right to fame and literary immortality. In a tribute of gratitude to her muse, friend, and editoraptly named Muzioshe claims that loving such a talented writer reflects well upon her: the worth \/ was yours; but in loving you, the glory mine. Muzio, in turn, writes an introduction to Tullia's dialogue on love, praising the beauty of her mind and the brightness of her soul's flame, refined by hardship and virtue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe quality of craftsmanship, the originality of thought, and the fiercely proud ambition in these poems set Tullia d'Aragona in a category apart from other women poets of the era. Her wish to be immortalized in print, renowned in her own eternal lines to time, will be fulfilled through this bilingual edition. Retaining the music of the Italian, these translations bring Tullia's work to life for an English audience.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49593480773905,"sku":"GOR013590936","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807615625.jpg?v=1750850234"},{"product_id":"dialogue-on-the-infinity-of-love-book-tullia-d-aragona-9780226136394","title":"Dialogue on the Infinity of Love","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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729036550417,"sku":"NGR9780226136394","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226136396.jpg?v=1751290702"},{"product_id":"wretch-otherwise-known-as-guerrino-book-tullia-d-aragona-9781649591104","title":"The Wretch, Otherwise Known as Guerrino","description":"The only English translation of the first epic poem to be authored by an Italian woman.   This is an unabridged bilingual, fully annotated edition of Tullia d’Aragona’s epic poem The Wretch. This mid-century epic reflects the many historical and religious changes taking place in the first half of the sixteenth century in Europe and the burgeoning literary debates following the publication of another Italian epic poem, Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. The Wretch recounts the adventures of Guerrino, a nobleman captured by pirates as an infant and sold into slavery. His famous quest in search of his parents and his identity involves abductions, same-sex seductions, and skirmishes with fantastical beasts as he travels through Europe, Turkey, Africa, India, Arabia, and the Purgatory of St. Patrick. The poem occupies an important position in the development of the prestigious epic genre, the highest step on the ladder to literary recognition and fame, and Tullia’s work paved the way for the epics of other women writers in subsequent decades.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51629948371217,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51629948666129,"sku":"NGR9781649591104","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1649591101.jpg?v=1750764798"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-tullia-d-aragona.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}