The book of the courtier / Baldesar Castiglione ; translated and with an introduction by George Bull.
By: Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte [author].
Contributor(s): Bull, George [translator, author of introduction].
Material type: BookSeries: Penguin classics: Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin books, 1976Copyright date: ©1967Description: 367 pages ; 19 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0140441921 (paperback).Subject(s): Courts and courtiers | CourtesyDDC classification: 853Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store Item | 853 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00059858 | ||
General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 853 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00060604 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour - chiefly discretion, decorum, nonchalance and gracefulness - as well as wider questions such as the duties of a good government and the true nature of love. Castiglione's narrative power and psychological perception make this guide both an entertaining comedy of manners and a revealing window onto the ideals and preoccupations of the Italian Renaissance at the moment of its greatest splendour.
Includes index.
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Castiglione was born in 1478 and a member of an ancient aristocratic family. A courtier throughout his life, his writings were always a secondary affair.George Bull was an author and journlaist who translated six books for the Penguin Classics, including The Prince by Machiavelli. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was made a Knight Commander in 1999.