Published 2021
“…It also compares the self-presentation of Bembo in his Prose with his earlier self-presentation in his
Neo-Latin dialogue, De Aetna (1496).
The final chapter, on gender, explores questions relating to women in dialogue, summarising the participation of women in classical dialogues and assessing the portrayal of women in three early modern examples: Pietro Bembo’s Gli Asolani (1505), Agnolo Firenzuola’s Dialogo delle Bellezze delle Donne (1541) and Tullia d’Aragona’s Dialogo della Infinità di Amore.
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