Dante's Idea of Friendship : The Transformation of a Classical Concept /
Modesto, Filippa
Dante's Idea of Friendship : The Transformation of a Classical Concept / Filippa Modesto. - 1 online resource (272 p.) - Toronto Italian Studies .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classical Friendship: Aristotle and Dante’s Convivio -- 3. Cicero’s De Amicitia and Dante’s Convivio -- 4. Christian Friendship -- 5. The Vita Nuova: Dante’s Friendship with Guido Cavalcanti and Others -- 6. Amor and Amicizia in Inferno 2 -- 7. Friendship in Purgatorio 30 and Purgatorio 31 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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In the ancient world, friendship was a virtue of great philosophical importance. Aristotle wrote extensively about it, as did Cicero. Their conception of friendship as a relationship based on reason and virtue was transformed by Christianity into a connection based on the mutual love of an individual and God.In Dante’s Idea of Friendship, Filippa Modesto offers sharp readings of the Commedia, Vita Nuova, and Convivio that demonstrate Dante’s interest in that theme. Drawing on a lucid and wide-ranging examination of the literature on friendship, she shows how he weaved together the contradictory classical and the Christian concepts of friendship into a harmonious synthesis in which friendship became a handmaiden to salvation and happiness. A fresh, perceptive interpretation of Dante’s works, Dante’s Idea of Friendship will engage medievalists, classicists, and scholars of friendship throughout the ages.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442650596 9781442624139
10.3138/9781442624139 doi
Friendship in literature.
HISTORY / Ancient / General.
PA6029.F75 / M63 2015eb
851/.1
Dante's Idea of Friendship : The Transformation of a Classical Concept / Filippa Modesto. - 1 online resource (272 p.) - Toronto Italian Studies .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classical Friendship: Aristotle and Dante’s Convivio -- 3. Cicero’s De Amicitia and Dante’s Convivio -- 4. Christian Friendship -- 5. The Vita Nuova: Dante’s Friendship with Guido Cavalcanti and Others -- 6. Amor and Amicizia in Inferno 2 -- 7. Friendship in Purgatorio 30 and Purgatorio 31 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In the ancient world, friendship was a virtue of great philosophical importance. Aristotle wrote extensively about it, as did Cicero. Their conception of friendship as a relationship based on reason and virtue was transformed by Christianity into a connection based on the mutual love of an individual and God.In Dante’s Idea of Friendship, Filippa Modesto offers sharp readings of the Commedia, Vita Nuova, and Convivio that demonstrate Dante’s interest in that theme. Drawing on a lucid and wide-ranging examination of the literature on friendship, she shows how he weaved together the contradictory classical and the Christian concepts of friendship into a harmonious synthesis in which friendship became a handmaiden to salvation and happiness. A fresh, perceptive interpretation of Dante’s works, Dante’s Idea of Friendship will engage medievalists, classicists, and scholars of friendship throughout the ages.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442650596 9781442624139
10.3138/9781442624139 doi
Friendship in literature.
HISTORY / Ancient / General.
PA6029.F75 / M63 2015eb
851/.1