{"product_id":"on-amista-negotiating-friendship-in-dantes-italy-hardback-9781487548179","title":"On Amistà; Negotiating Friendship in Dante's Italy (Hardback) 9781487548179","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn Amistà\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNegotiating Friendship in Dante's Italy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Coggeshall (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487548179\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 March 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm, 0.44 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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. \u003ci\u003eOn Amistà\u003c\/i\u003e analyses these dilemmas and looks at how Dante\u0026amp;#x2019;s strategic articulations of friendship evolved across the phases of his literary career as he manoeuvred between different social groups and settings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Coggeshall reveals that friendship was not an unequivocal moral good for the writers of late medieval Italy. Instead, it was an ambiguous term to be deployed strategically, describing a wide range of social relationships such as allies, collaborators, servants, patrons, rivals, and enemies. Drawing on the use of the language of friendship in the letters, correspondence poems, dedications, narratives, and treatises composed by Dante and his interlocutors, Coggeshall examines the way they skillfully negotiated around the dilemmas that friendship raised in the spheres of medieval Italian literary society. The book addresses instances of inclusivity and exclusivity, collaboration and self-interest, hierarchy and equality, and alterity and identity. Employing literary, historical, and sociological analysis, \u003ci\u003eOn Amistà\u003c\/i\u003e presents a genealogy for the innovative and tactical use of the terms of friendship among the works of late medieval Italian authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Dilemmas of Friendship in Dante\u0026amp;#x2019;s Italy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriendship\u0026amp;#x2019;s Many Faces\u003cbr\u003eA Sociological Approach: The Fields and Practices of Friendship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Exclusivity: The Piazza\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriendship as Civic Medicine\u003cbr\u003eCreating Networks\u003cbr\u003eThe Ship of Friendship\u003cbr\u003eFriendship\u0026amp;#x2019;s Secret Chambers\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Self-Interest: The University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage and \u003cem\u003eAmicabilitas\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eThe Ciceronian Turn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmicita\u003c\/em\u003e as Disinterested Collaboration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmicitia\u003c\/em\u003e as Self-Interested Sponsorship\u003cbr\u003eAbandoning \u003cem\u003eAmicitia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Hierarchy: The Court\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriendship in the Patronage Economy\u003cbr\u003eNegotiating Inequality\u003cbr\u003eThe Game of Honour\u003cbr\u003eManaging Reciprocity\u003cbr\u003eThe Gratuitous Gift\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Difference: The Afterlife\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e: Against the Other\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/em\u003e: Beside the Other\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eParadiso\u003c\/em\u003e: Beyond the Other\u003cbr\u003eThe Eclipse of Friendship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Friendship\u0026amp;#x2019;s Afterlife in Early Humanism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744622440728,"sku":"9781487548179","price":38.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-amista-negotiating-friendship-in-dantes-italy-hardback-9781487548179","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}