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Title: THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER
By: Baldassare Castiglione, George Bull (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0140441921
ISBN 13: 9780140441925
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 24 June, 1976
Pages: 368
Translated from: Italian
Description: Defines the essential virtues for those at Court. This title includes a series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, in which his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour - chiefly discretion and gracefulness - as well as questions such as the duties of a good government and the true nature of love.
Synopsis: 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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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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