Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Dilemmas of Friendship in Dante’s Italy
Friendship’s Many Faces
A Sociological Approach: The Fields and Practices of Friendship
1. Exclusivity: The Piazza
Friendship as Civic Medicine
Creating Networks
The Ship of Friendship
Friendship’s Secret Chambers
Epilogue
2. Self-Interest: The University
Language and Amicabilitas
The Ciceronian Turn
Amicita as Disinterested Collaboration
Amicitia as Self-Interested Sponsorship
Abandoning Amicitia
3. Hierarchy: The Court
Friendship in the Patronage Economy
Negotiating Inequality
The Game of Honour
Managing Reciprocity
The Gratuitous Gift
4. Difference: The Afterlife
Inferno: Against the Other
Purgatorio: Beside the Other
Paradiso: Beyond the Other
The Eclipse of Friendship
Epilogue: Friendship’s Afterlife in Early Humanism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
