Friendship, love, and trust in Renaissance Florence /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. |
Series: | Bernard Berenson lectures on the Italian Renaissance.
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Summary: | The question of whether true friendship could exist in an era of patronage occupied Renaissance Florentines as it had the ancient Greeks and Romans whose culture they admired and emulated. Rather than attempting to measure Renaissance friendship against a universal ideal defined by essentially modern notions of disinterestedness, intimacy, and sincerity, in this book Dale Kent explores the meaning of love and friendship as they were represented in the fifteenth century, particularly the relationship between heavenly and human friendship. |
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Physical Description: | xvii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-256) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674031371 0674031377 |
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