Abstract
In Leone Ebreo’s Dialogues of Love (1535) a particular space is dedicated to the Androgyne’s Myth. This article elucidates how this Myth condenses in itself the Dialogues ’ philosophical system. Having in mind Plato, Ficino, Pico, and the Spanish Kabbalah, with obvious references to the book of Zohar , Leone puts Love as the principle which governs the whole universe, and emphasizes that in the entire universe there is a radical polarity in terms of male and female symbols. This cosmological issue is connected to the creative force of language, which analogically reproduces reality. In fact, there must be a division between signifier and signified, between form and content, between fabula and historia , in order to have a world or a reality. The Dialogues ’ two interlocutors, Sofia and Filone, represent, in fact, two halves of the androgyne whose names, when united, form the composite body that we call “philo-sophy.”
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