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Classical Notions of Friendship in Renaissance Thought and Culture

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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.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-80079-207-4 / 978-1800792074 / 9781800792074

Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 13.12.2021

Seiten: 288

Auflage: 1

Herausgegeben von Matthias Roick, Patrizia Piredda
Reihe herausgegeben von Sarah Alyn Stacey

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