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Camus never believed in perfect love. He believed in imperfect people who go on loving one another without illusion. In an age still haunted by Romanticism, his vision feels radical: love not as salvation but as clarity, mercy found not in perfection, but in its limits.
Tullia d’Aragona’s Dialogue on the Infinity of Love (1547) defied Renaissance norms by asserting that sexual desire is natural and that women are intellectual equals to men. A courtesan and philosopher, she framed radical ideas within the traditions of her time, crafting a legacy that still challenges perceptions of love, gender, and power today.