Vera amicitia: classical notions of friendship in Renaissance thought and culture - 10 (New edition 1)

This text investigates the meanings of the notion of friendship in the Renaissance.

Each chapter highlights how authors of the time both drew on Greek and Latin paradigms of friendship and created new ones in both the public and private spheres.

Authors discussed include Machiavelli, Montaigne, Thomas More, Erasmus, and more.