«…parce que c’était lui: parce que c’était moi…»
Montaigne in the vicissitudes of love
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https://doi.org/10.6093/2284-0184/9781Keywords:
Friendship, Love, Boy, Venus, Old AgeAbstract
The relationship between Michel de Montaigne and Étienne La Boétie, which ended in August 1563 struck by the plague, has been the subject of many analyses. However, not always these analyses have observed in depth the shadows present in De l’amitié (I, 28), the famous essay on friendship also recognized by Glauser as one of the most ambiguous. No ambiguity, however, in Sur des vers de Virgile (III, 5), the essay dedicated to love, written many years after the death of the friend and where the name of Étienne does not occur even once. The point is remarkable because the theme that marks De l'amitié is, along with other reasons, that of the relationship between love and friendship, which Montaigne explores, while speaking of him and of Etienne, with considerable diversity of tones both inside the couche A and in relation to the additions of the Exemplaire de Bordeaux. Read diachronically, in the dazzling lights and revealing shadows that characterize it, this chapter shows the mental movement of Montaigne and different conflicting ways that mark its moments.
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