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Negotiating Neoplatonism and the Androgyne Metaphor in Heptaméron 70 and 19

This article discusses how the figure of the Androgyne is used strategically, challenging prevailing gender norms and negotiating women’s voice and agency in the Heptaméron. Aristophanes’s myth from Plato’s Symposium is transformed in early modern interpretations, and in novella 70 the Duchess evokes the metaphor of the marital Androgyne (ung cueur, une ame et une chair) in her bid to get what she desires. In novella 19, often described as the most illustrative of Neoplatonic love in the collection, I assess how a woman controls the negotiation from earthly love to the divine union of souls.