Fra Sud ed Europa. Studi sul Novecento letterario italiano
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Abstract
A welcome contribution in the field of Dante Studies, Filippa Modesto's Dante's Idea of Friendship is the first monograph with a specific focus on the subject of friendship in Dante's work.Modesto's book is well researched and contains a valuable summary of Classical and Christian notions of friendship as well as a helpful analysis of the Dantean passages dealing with friendship.As the first to break ground in the field, Modesto's work opens research lines that this book alone cannot exhaust by itself.The main contention is that Virgil represents and offers Dante a type of friendship that coincides with classical theories, based in reason, while Beatrice's is a love that reflects Christian friendship, or caritas, disinterested and rooted in God.The author frames her discussion within the theories of Aristotle and Cicero, and the theology of Christian friendship as found in Augustine, Aquinas and Albert the Great.Chapters One to Three explore Dante's idea of friendship in the Convivio against the backdrop of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and Cicero's De amicitia: Dante's philosophical treatise "is a gift offered in the spirit of friendship to the less fortunate members of society" (56) who lack the opportunity to pursue regular education in philosophy.Chapter Four tracks the evolution of the idea of friendship in Boethius, Augustine and Aquinas, connecting it with Dante's.The great amount of attention (more than half the book) given to classical and Christian writers on friendship has perhaps drawn Modesto away from some important critical literature on Dante and friendship.No mention is found of Emilio Pasquini's several contributions on friendship in Dante, nor of Michelangelo
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".