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The Stranger as Friend : the Poetics of Friendship in Homer, Dante, and Boccaccio
xviii,158 p.
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ISBN: 9788866553618
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SUBJECTS HEADINGS
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia
- Homer. Iliad
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone
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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