Agnolo Firenzuola on Female Sexuality and Women's Equality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16616681 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacqueline Murray (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-213 |
| Publication date | 1991-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2542732 |
| OpenAlex | W2795560214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In the dialogue Delle bellezze delle donne (Florence, 1548) Agnolo Firenzuola develops a discussion of human nature and human sexuality based on Plato's Symposium. Firenzuola proposes a philosophy of sexual equality that far exceeds the beliefs of many of his fellow humanists and his explicit assertion of the equality of men and women serves to highlight the rather conventional opinions of more prominent humanist commentators. Given the popular audience for which Firenzuola wrote, it may be that this view was more widely accepted at this level of society than in the courtly societies frequented by many other humanists
Aesthetics · Assertion · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Humanism · Sociology · Theology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2002 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |