On Amista

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Dilemmas of Friendship in Dante's Italy

Friendship's Many Faces
A Sociological Approach: The Fields and Practices of Friendship

1. Exclusivity: The Piazza

Friendship as Civic Medicine
Creating Networks
The Ship of Friendship
Friendship's Secret Chambers
Epilogue

2. Self-Interest: The University

Language and Amicabilitas
The Ciceronian Turn
Amicita as Disinterested Collaboration
Amicitia as Self-Interested Sponsorship
Abandoning Amicitia

3. Hierarchy: The Court

Friendship in the Patronage Economy
Negotiating Inequality
The Game of Honour
Managing Reciprocity
The Gratuitous Gift

4. Difference: The Afterlife

Inferno: Against the Other
Purgatorio: Beside the Other
Paradiso: Beyond the Other
The Eclipse of Friendship

Epilogue: Friendship's Afterlife in Early Humanism

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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• História Militar
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• Arqueologia europeia medieval
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friendship; Dante; social networks; medieval Italy; medieval studies; Renaissance Italy; late medieval Christian society; patronage economy; correspondence; rivalry; tenzone; patronage; dedication; humanism