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In the 16th century, philosophical dialogues on this concept were written by Judah Leon Abravanel and Tullia d’Aragona, the latter of whom was the first Western philosopher to write a dialogue on this concept with a woman as the main disputant. A set of seven orationes (“oh-rah-T’YOH-nace”) on this concept was dedicated to the author’s best friend Giovanni Cavalcanti, and was written by a proponent of prisca theologia (“PRISS-kuh tay-oh-LOH-jee-ah”) who coined the name for a specific form of this concept. Three men argue about this concept in The People of Asolo by Pietro Bembo, who delivers a discourse in The Book of the Courtier favoring this concept’s “rational” form. Marsilio Ficino (“fee-CHEE-noh”) named a form of this concept after a philosopher who wrote a passage in which Diotima (-5[1])compares forms of this concept to rungs on a ladder. For 10 points, Renaissance philosophers often wrote about what concept’s “Platonic” form? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: love [accept Eros; accept Platonic love; accept De amore; accept rational love; accept Dialogues of Love or Dialoghi d’amore; accept Dialogues on the Infinity of Love or Dialogo dell’Infinità d’Amore]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Neal JoshiWUSTL BPenn A124-5
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AWUSTL B14710

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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y1100%0%100%147.00