He wrote a work in which a husband and wife have sex in a cave, while each believing themselves to be sleeping with a different person, after which the husband drinks what he thinks is a love potion and falls into a coma, which is mistaken for death by the wife.
One essay by this author points out that Thales, Emepedocles, and Pythagoras all carried out their philosophical discourse in verse rather than prose, and begins by describing John Pietro Pugliano's speech in praise of horse-riding. That essay by him counters Plato by arguing that poetry lies the least of all disciplines because it is the only one that does not claim to portray truth. He wrote a work in which a husband and wife have sex in a cave, while each believing themselves to be sleeping with a different person, after which the husband drinks what he thinks is a love potion and falls into a coma, which is mistaken for death by the wife. (*) Percy Bysshe Shelley took inspiration from this author's The Defence of Poesy to write a similarly titled tract. In this author's most famous prose work, the Amazonian warrior Zelmane is really Pyrocles in drag, trying to woo Philoclea, the daughter of Basilius. For 10 points, name this Elizabethan author of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
One essay by this author points out that Thales, Emepedocles, and Pythagoras all carried out their philosophical discourse in verse rather than prose, and begins by describing John Pietro Pugliano's speech in praise of horse-riding.
Sir Philip Sidney