L’amorosa filosofia is a 1577[1] book by the Venetian philosopher Franciscus Patricius, in which the author develops his philosophy of love and views on ethics.
[2][3][4][5] L’amorosa filosofia belongs to the genre of the love treatise that was extremely popular in Italy in the 16th century, the trattati d'amore .
The incompletely preserved, apparently unfinished work was only edited in 1963 based on the author's own manuscript.
Participants in the discussion are a number of people, including the author and Bernardino Telesio as the central figure Tarquinia Molza.
In the first dialogue, which makes up about half of the text, Tarquinia does not appear, but is the focus of attention because dThe participants in the discussion describe and praise their intellectual, artistic and physical advantages.