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 (parrhesia), 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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