The Book of the Courtier
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Product details:
- Edition number Revised
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Date of Publication 24 June 1976
- Number of Volumes B-format paperback
- ISBN 9780140441925
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 198x130x20 mm
- Weight 270 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
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.
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