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    The Book of the Courtier (Italian: Il Cortegiano [il korteˈdʒaːno]) by Baldassare Castiglione is a lengthy philosophical dialogue on the topic of what...
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    diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author. Castiglione wrote Il Cortegiano or The Book of the Courtier, a courtesy book dealing with questions...
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  • "The French Factor in Castiglione's "The Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano)": From the Manuscript Drafts to the Printed Edition". Renaissance...
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    Prohibited Books. La cortigiana is a brilliant parody of Castiglione's Il Cortegiano, and features the adventures of a Sienese gentleman, Messer Maco, who...
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  • courtly manners and morals – Baldassarre Castiglione's Il Cortegiano (1528); Giovanni della Casa's Il Galateo (1558) and Stefano Guazzo's La Civil Conversazione...
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  • Courtesy Books. Stanford University Press. Adams, Hilary (1947). "Il Cortegiano and Il Galateo". Modern Language Review. 42 (4): 457–466. doi:10.2307/3716799...
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    reflected in many other written tributes. Baldassare Castiglione, author of Il Cortegiano (The Courtier), wrote in 1528: "...Another of the greatest painters...
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    influential genre in the 16th, with the most influential of them being Il Cortegiano (1508), which not only covered basic etiquette and decorum but also...
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    measure"). Milán’s last publication, El cortesano (1561), modeled on Il Cortegiano by Baldassare Castiglione, gives a vivid and entertaining picture of...
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  • political tracts, the best known of which are Il perfetto cortegiano et dell'uffizio del prencipe verso il cortegiano and commentaries on Tacitus (both 1609)...
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    brilliant court, according to the descriptions in Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528), set standards of what...
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    pages. Federico, through Baldassarre Castiglione's descriptions in Il Cortegiano, introduced the characters of the so-called "gentleman" in Europe, which...
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    Courtier), an adaptation of Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (Il cortegiano). Łukasz Górnicki was born in Oświęcim. He was the son of Marcin Góra...
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  • to the Institutio Principis Christiani of Erasmus and Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano, though not that to Francesco Patrizzi, Bishop of Gaeta at the end of...
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    based on the neoplatonic ideal championed in The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano) that Boscán had also translated. Their reputation was consolidated...
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  • was urged by Castiglione and Garcilaso to translate the ambassador's "Il Cortegiano" into Spanish, which was published on 2 April 1534 to great success...
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    Castiglione. Il Cortegiano. Francesco Torraca. Discussioni e ricerche letterarie – via F. Vigo. Rita Delcroix. Giuliano de' Medici: il crepuscolo del...
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    Demetrio, 1709 Rodelinda regina de' Longobardi, 1710 Un prologo per il cortegiano, 1739 Due gigli porporati nel martirio di santa Serafia e santa Sabina...
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    "Il sonetto "Alla sua donna" di Francesco Berni" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 4 July 2022. "Baldassarre Castiglione: vita, opere e Il Cortegiano" (in...
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    & Cassone e Marzorati tipografi. Castiglione, Baldassarre (1955). "Il Cortegiano". Classici. UTET. Calmeta, Vincenzo (1504). Collettanee greche, latine...
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  • distribution in England. Baltissare Castiglione – The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano) Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Ancien Testament (translation of the Old...
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  • first 16 of 20 books) Sir Thomas Hoby – The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano, translation) Julius Caesar Scaliger – Poetices Thomas Norton and Thomas...
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    Stefano Prandi: Il "Cortegiano" ferrarese, Florence 1990, p 87-112, 198, 203-210; Isabella Fedozzi: Il Barignano: Francesco Patricius ed il dibattito sull'onore...
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    inviting his editorial comments on Hoby's translation of The Courtier (Il Cortegiano) of Baldassare Castiglione, over the Preface to which he had taken some...
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    the scholar Pietro del Monte. Baldassare Castiglione also in his book Il Cortegiano cites Galeazzo Sanseverino as an example of a perfect nobleman, and...
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    in 1784. He was descended from Baldassare Castiglione, the author of Il Cortegiano. Early in life he displayed a great aptitude for languages and numismatics...
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  • Gratulation to the Church of England (1549), and Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano (1561). The latter translation of The Courtier, entitled The Courtyer...
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    vers et en prose, Paris, A. Sauton, 1870 (in Italian) Luigi de Nardis, Il cortegiano e l’eroe, studio su Saint-Évremond, Firenze, La Nuova Italia Editrice...
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    the society of the royal court. Guevara, who most certainly had read Il Cortegiano (1518) by Baldassare Castiglione—whom Charles V called the greatest...
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  • the world") 1528 Baltissare Castiglione – The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano) Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Ancien Testament, translation of the Old...
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