the highest beauty is His intellect or wisdom, in the image of which the whole derives from the form that actuates their matter, and therefore all the forms or Ideas pre-exist in the eternal splendor. The end of all love is pleasure, and this is the same as the desire of the lover for union with the beloved, because pleasure consists in union with the pleasurable. The end of love of the universe is union with divine beauty, the final beatitude and highest perfection of all creation. Philo, however is careful to point out that his love has no end but torment and grief, because Sophia is unwilling to grant him his desire and makes no return of his love. She persists in her refusal to recognize any save the love of the intellect, and finding that argument cannot avail her against the subtleties of Philo's reasoning, reminds him of his promise to tell of the effects of love, for she would know further of the dangers into which he would lead her. And so the lovers part, and the tale of their promised meeting is as yet untold.Dialoghi d'amore was an important work in Spanish culture as it brought Renaissance ideals to Spain. Otis Green argues in his España y la tradición occidental that in Abravanel's work human love is spiritualized, placing it in connection with divine love, by posing the necessity of going beyond physical union to merge minds and souls. Miguel de Cervantes refers to the Dialoghi d'amore in the Prologue to his Don Quixote. References Further reading Caramella, Santino, Ed. Dialoghi d'amore. By Leone Ebreo. Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929. Leone Ebreo. Dialogues of Love. Trans. Damian Bacich and Rossella Pescatori. Ed. Rosella Pescatori. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Leone Ebreo. The Philosophy of Love. Trans. F. Friedeberg-Seeley and Jean H. Barnes. London: The Soncino Press, 1937. Feldman, Seymour. Philosophy in a Time of Crisis: Don Isaac Abravanel: Defender of the Faith. New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Gebhardt, Carl, Ed. Hebræische Gedichte. By Leone Ebreo. London: Oxford University Press, 1929. Gilbhard, Thomas. Bibliografia degli studi su Leone Hebreo (Jehudah Abravanel), in: «Accademia. Revue de la Société Marsile Ficin», VI, 2004, p. 113-134 Green, Otis. España y la tradición occidental. Vol. I. Madrid: Gredos, 1969. León Hebreo. Diálogos de amor. Trans. Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca. México: Editorial Porrúa, 1985. Menéndez Pelayo, Marcelino. "Introduction." Diálogos