Title: The stranger as friend : the poetics of friendship in Homer, Dante, and Boccaccio /
Authors: Masciandaro, Franco, 1938-
Publisher: Firenze University Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Dante Alighieri,; Homer.; Boccaccio, Giovanni,; Friendship in literature
Contents: 1. Friendship in the Iliad : beyond the ethos of the warrior society -- 2. The perversion of friendship in Inferno -- 3. Friendship, private and political, in Purgatorio -- 4. The politics of friendship and erotic passion in Paradisio -- 5. Friendship and the creative power of play in Boccaccio's Decameron.