Representations of twisted Yangians of types B, C, D: I

We initiate a theory of highest weight representations for twisted Yangians of types B, C, D and we classify the finite-dimensional irreducible representations of twisted Yangians associated to symmetric pairs of types CI, DIII and BCD0

Gender and Equality between Women and Men in Tullia d’Aragona’s Dialogue on the Infinity of Love

Tullia d’Aragona (ca. 1510–1556), a poet and courtesan, enters the renaissance tradition of love dialogues with her philosophical work Dialogo della Infinità di Amore (Dialogue on the Infinity of Love, 1547). Tullia d’Aragona is the only female writer in the renaissance tradition oflove dialogues (Russell 1997, 21). Her account of love is impregnated by the idea of equality between women and men. This essay focuses on gender issues in Dialogue on the Infinity of Love and is composed of three parts. In the first part, I examine Dialogue’s passages where the issues of women’s true nature and equality between women and men are explicitly mentioned, so as to explore Tullia d’Aragona’s conceptions of gender and gender equality, as emerged from those passages. In the second part, I explore the following questions: (a) What does the incorporation of intercourse in honest love imply for Tullia d’Aragona’s conception of gendered human beings? I argue that it implies that she conceives of both women and men as autonomous pshyco-corporeal units. (b) What does Tullia d’Aragona’s account of honest love imply for gender and morality in general? I argue that it advocates in favor of a unified morality of love on the basis of both genders’ common humanity. In the last part, I reflect on the Dialogue from the perspective of a feminist history of philosophy. I argue that the fact that the idea of gender equality pervades the Dialogue both leads to the development of a feminist account of love and advocates for Tullia d’Aragona’s capacity to do philosophy. © 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG