‹em›On Amistà‹/em› : : Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy / / Elizabeth Coggeshall.

Although we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers across late medieval Christian society friendship raised a number of social and ethical dilemmas that needed to be carefully negotiated. On Amistà analyses these dilemmas and looks at...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Dilemmas of Friendship in Dante’s Italy
  • 1 Exclusivity: The Piazza
  • 2 Self-Interest: The University
  • 3 Hierarchy: The Court
  • 4 Difference: The Afterlife
  • Epilogue: Friendship’s Afterlife in Early Humanism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index