On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante's Italy
Elizabeth Coggeshall, "On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante's Italy "
English | ISBN: 1487548176 | 2023 | 232 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 1487548176 | 2023 | 232 pages | PDF | 6 MB
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 how Dante’s strategic articulations of friendship evolved across the phases of his literary career as he manoeuvred between different social groups and settings.
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