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The culture of early modern friendship.(Editorial)

Texas Studies in Literature and Language

| December 22, 2005 | Chaplin, Gregory | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The editors are grateful for the assistance of Doug Bruster, Alison Frazier, Wayne Rebhorn, Michael Stapleton, Madeline Sutherland-Meier, and Lisa Moore.

This special issue of TSLL revises our understanding of early modern literary culture by examining its preoccupation with friendship. Foregrounding Petrarch's devotion to friendship in the years following the outbreak of the Black Death, Dolora Chapelle Wojciehowski complicates the traditional view of him as the paradigm of Renaissance individualism. Amid the desolation of post-plague Italy, she argues, Petrarch defined the conventions and values of humanist friendship for later generations. Jason Harris draws on Abraham Ortelius's album amicorum, or book of friends, to study humanist literary culture during the Dutch Revolt, uncovering an intellectual community trying to hold firm against the ravages of time and political turmoil. Francois Rigolot reconstructs the original conception behind another book: Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Tracing his debt to Platonic love, Rigolot reveals why Montaigne had planned to place his dead friend's political treatise, Etienne de la Boetie's Discours de la servitude volontaire, at the center of his own work. Turning ...

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