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Title

Vera amicitia : classical notions of friendship in Renaissance thought and culture / Patrizia Piredda and Matthias Roick (eds)..

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2022]

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Additional Authors

• Piredda, Patrizia
• Roick, Matthias

Description

xiii, 283 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

"The book is dedicated to investigating the meanings of the notion of friendship in the Renaissance from two perspectives, philological and philosophical, by observing how the notion was used in a broad spectrum of case studies of Renaissance culture. Each chapter highlights the way in which the authors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (writers, philosophers, philologists, politicians, etc.) on the one hand appropriated Greek and Latin paradigms of friendship, applying them to understand their own social and political context, while on the other hand they created new paradigms of friendship in both the public and private spheres. Each chapter develops an argument on the notion of friendship starting from the investigation of a particular context and creating a network of connections between the words related to friendship, such as: speaking sincerely (parrhēsia), flattery, justice, love, pleasure good, utility, virtue, good life and truth, in both the private and public domains. The writers addressed in the various chapters are - as regards the ancients - Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Plutarch, Cicero and Seneca; among the moderns we encounter Machiavelli, Montaigne, Thomas More, Erasmus, Juan de Mariana, Feliciano Silvestri, Johannes Caselius, the members of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft and the authors of Renaissance emblem books"--

Series Statement

Court cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 2296-4118 ; Volume 10

Uniform Title

Court cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; v. 10.

Subject

• 1450-1600
• European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism
• Friendship in literature
• Friendship > Europe > History
• European literature > Classical influences
• Littérature européenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique
• Amitié dans la littérature
• Amitié > Europe > Histoire
• Littérature européenne > Influence ancienne
• European literature > Renaissance
• Friendship
• Europe

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN

• 9781800792074
• 1800792077
• 9781800792081 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781800792098 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781800792104 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020057333

OCLC

1235902615

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library