Platonic Love in Renaissance Discussions of Friendship (2022)
Book Chapter
Schachter, M. (2022). Platonic Love in Renaissance Discussions of Friendship. In C. S. O'Brien, & J. Dillon (Eds.), Platonic love from antiquity to the Renaissance (275-288). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525596.022

Elite friendship discourse in the Renaissance was shaped by a set of commonplaces inherited from classical antiquity according to which friends were virtuous, male, and few in number, and their relationships egalitarian and non-sexual. Neoplatonic lo... Read More about Platonic Love in Renaissance Discussions of Friendship.