Vera Amicitia : Classical Notions of Friendship in Renaissance Thought and Culture Paperback / softback
Edited by Patrizia Piredda, Matthias Roick
Part of the Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance series
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This book investigates 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 ways in which authors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (writers, philosophers, philologists, politicians, etc.) appropriated Greek and Latin paradigms of friendship, on the one hand, 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 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 – with regard to the ancients – Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Plutarch, Cicero and Seneca and – among the moderns – 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.
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- Pages:288 pages, 21 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication Date:13/12/2021
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- ISBN:9781800792074
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 21 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication Date:13/12/2021
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- ISBN:9781800792074