The Stranger as Friend : the Poetics of Friendship in Homer, Dante, and Boccaccio

xviii,158 p.

• Information

  ISBN: 9788866553618

  Permalink: http://digital.casalini.it/9788866553618

  SERIES

  Studi e saggi ; 117
  

  DISCIPLINES

  • Italian poetry
  • French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Literature

  SUBJECTS HEADINGS

  • Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia
  • Homer. Iliad
  • Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone
• In this volume

  • Introduction
  • Friendship in the Iliad : beyond the Ethos of the Warrior Society
  • The Perversion of Friendship in Inferno
  • Friendship, Private and Political, in Purgatorio
  • The Politics of Friendship and Erotic Passion in Paradiso
  • Friendship and the Creative Power of Play in Boccaccio's Decameron
  • Works Cited
  • Index of Names