{"pk":41131,"title":"Rereading \nI libri della famiglia\n: Leon Battista Alberti on Marriage, \nAmicizia\n and Conjugal Friendship","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the conceptual relationship between marriage and friendship in the four-book dialogue on the family composed by the Florentine humanist Leon Battista Alberti during the 1430s.  Alberti’s interlocutors argue variously that marriage is a burden, a procreative engine, a site of companionship, an economic partnership and, remarkably, the locus of true friendship.  Their discussion provokes a rethinking of these two interpersonal bonds, which emerge not only as critical to the stability of the family, the state and society, but also as a vital means of pressing erotic love into the service of the family through conjugal friendship.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Renaissance Italy"},{"word":"Alberti"},{"word":"marriage"},{"word":"Friendship"},{"word":"I libri della famiglia"},{"word":"Other Italian Language and Literature"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9t3049v8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Amyrose","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"McCue Gill","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2011-05-06T17:49:38Z","date_accepted":"2011-05-06T17:49:38Z","date_published":"2011-12-16T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41131/galley/30765/download/"}]}