Resumen de Margherita Cantelmo and Agostino Strozzi: Friendship's Gifts and a Portrait Medal by Costanzo da Ferrara

Carolyn James, Francis William Kent

• The essay discusses the friendship between Italian noblewoman Margherita Cantelmo and her cousin, abbot Agostino Strozzi. The author discusses the development of the concept of friendship throughout history, analyzing the work of the humanists Petrarch and Erasmus on the subject. Cantelmo's patronage of a treatise extolling the capabilities of women is described, as is a treatise on friendship written by Strozzi. Letters written by the two friends are analyzed.