The philosophy of love in the Querelle des femmes : from Leon Hebreo to Galeazzo Flavio Capra

María Belén Hernández González

doi:10.5817/ERB2025-2-7

The philosophy of love in the Querelle des femmes : from Leon Hebreo to Galeazzo Flavio Capra

Vol.46,No.2(2025)

María Belén Hernández González

https://doi.org/10.5817/ERB2025-2-7

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.83309

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Abstract

A new interpretation of the Platonic philosophy penetrated Renaissance culture through the first translations from Greek original manuscripts, bringing about a change of mentality in European society between the 15th and 16th centuries; the impact of which was particularly important regarding the positive transformation of the consideration of women. This paper compares the possible correspondences and influences of Leo the Hebrew (or Jehuda Abarbanel) in the treatise Della eccellenza e dignità della donna (1525) by Galeazzo F. Capra (or Cappella), an aspect not yet studied among his sources. Through Capra's work, we will observe the humanist reception of the Dialogues of Love, written by Leo the Hebrew between 1501 and 1502, which circulated in manuscript form through the Italian courts until the complete Tuscanized and posthumous edition of 1535, leaving a mark on almost all the authors of the Querelle des femmes, with repercussions in Hispanic thought as well, with the translation of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.

Keywords:
neoplatonism; Querelle des femmes; Dialogues of Love; Jehuda Abarbanel; Cappella; Della eccellenza e dignità della donna

Pages:
77–91

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