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Author : Baldassarre Castiglione
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248927606
Author : Baldassarre conte Castiglione
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066426583
"The Book of the Courtier" by Baldassarre conte Castiglione is a lengthy philosophical dialogue on the topic of what constitutes an ideal courtier or court lady, worthy to befriend and advise a Prince or political leader. Castiglione set the narrative of the book in his years as a courtier in his native Duchy of Urbino. It offers a poignantly nostalgic evocation with a reverent tribute to the friends of Castiglione's youth.
Author : Baldassare Castiglione,Sir Thomas Hoby
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1387895397
The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione's classic account of Renaissance court life, offers profound insight into the refined behavior which defined the era's ruling class. The courtly customs and manners of Italy to a great extent characterized the Renaissance, which elevated art and expression to new heights. Baldassare Castiglione published this book with the intention of chronicling the manners, customs and traditions which underpinned how courtiers, nobles, and their servants, behaved. Although ostensibly a book of etiquette and good conduct, Castiglione's treatise carries enormous historical value. He derived his observations directly from the many gatherings and receptions conducted by society's elite. Conversations with the officials, diplomats and nobility of the era further enhanced the accuracy of this book, imbuing it with an authenticity seldom seen elsewhere.
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745665849
This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
Author : Matthew Stewart
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780393071047
"Exhilarating…Stewart has achieved a near impossibility, creating a page-turner about jousting metaphysical ideas, casting thinkers as warriors." —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review Once upon a time, philosophy was a dangerous business—and for no one more so than for Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century philosopher vilified by theologians and political authorities everywhere as “the atheist Jew.” As his inflammatory manuscripts circulated underground, Spinoza lived a humble existence in The Hague, grinding optical lenses to make ends meet. Meanwhile, in the glittering salons of Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was climbing the ladder of courtly success. In between trips to the opera and groundbreaking work in mathematics, philosophy, and jurisprudence, he took every opportunity to denounce Spinoza, relishing his self-appointed role as “God’s attorney.” In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart gives narrative form to an epic contest of ideas that shook the seventeenth century—and continues today.
Author : Mario Biagioli
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226218977
Informed by currents in sociology, cultural anthropology, and literary theory, Galileo, Courtier is neither a biography nor a conventional history of science. In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. Biagioli argues that Galileo's courtly role was integral to his science—the questions he chose to examine, his methods, even his conclusions. Galileo, Courtier is a fascinating cultural and social history of science highlighting the workings of power, patronage, and credibility in the development of science.
Author : W.R. Albury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317169482
Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano, 1528), a dialogue in which the interlocutors attempt to describe the perfect courtier, was one of the most influential books of the Renaissance. In recent decades a number of postmodern readings of this work have appeared, emphasizing what is often characterized as the playful indeterminacy of the text, and seeking to detect inconsistencies which are interpreted as signs of anxiety or bad faith in its presentation. In contrast to these postmodern readings, the present study conducts an experiment. What understanding does one gain of Castiglione’s book if one attempts an early modern reading? The author approaches The Book of the Courtier as a text in which some of its most important aspects are intentionally concealed and veiled in allegory. W.R. Albury argues that this early modern reading of The Book of the Courtier enables us to recover a serious political message which has a great deal of contemporary relevance and which is lost from sight when the work is approached primarily as a courtly etiquette book, or as a lament for the lost influence of the aristocracy in an age when autocratic nation-states were coming into being, or as an impersonal textual field upon which a free play of transformations and deconstructions may be performed.
Author : Baldesar Castiglione
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141965024
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Author : Baltasar Gracián
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141966977
Written over 350 years ago, The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence is a charming collection of 300 witty and thought-provoking aphorisms. From the art of being lucky to the healthy use of caution, these elegant maxims were created as a guide to life, with further suggestions given on cultivating good taste, knowing how to refuse, the foolishness of complaining and the wisdom of controlling one's passions. Baltasar Gracian intended that these ingenious aphorisms would encourage each reader to challenge themselves both in understanding and applying each axiom.
Author : Giovanni Della Casa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Carving (Meat, etc.)
ISBN : HARVARD:RSM95R
Courtesy book, specifically intended for children. First appears in Italian in 1558.
Author : G K Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000587357
First published in 1962, John Lyly marks a shift from the traditional focus on John Lyly as the originator of the strange stylistic craze called Euphuism, and as the dramatist from whose plays Shakespeare deigned to borrow some of his earliest and least attractive comic devices to an author whose works are excellent in themselves. Critics have suggested that an independent reading of Euphues, and more especially of the plays, reveals an attractive delicacy of wit and a refined power of linguistic filigree quite independent of his influence on others or his capacity to illustrate the curious tastes of our forefathers. The eight plays – his most mature artistic achievements – are analysed in detail to bring out their relation to the tradition of court drama. A final chapter compares Lyly and Shakespeare in an attempt to show in operation the different traditions which the book has discussed. This book will appeal to students of English literature, drama and literary history.
Author : Stephen Kolsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000938401
The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal: his experiences at court and their subsequent rewriting form the backbone of the work. The author then addresses questions of biography, gender, genre, and the varied roles of the courtier, expanding the perspective of Castiglione's text to include the lives and writings of other courtiers and patrons. What was it like to be a courtier? What were the problems associated with such a lifestyle? The importance of women in court circles is also highlighted in studies of one of the most notable of female patrons Isabella d'Este (1474-1539) and of the theoretical developments in writing about gender, stimulated by such women. Stephen Kolsky's analysis of both well-known and comparatively obscure texts brings out the diversity of practices that constituted court society and their centrality to our understanding of the Renaissance.
Author : John Peacock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000167962
This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture. Beginning with Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (1528), the most influential early modern account of the formation of elite identity, the argument traces a path across the ensuing century towards the images of courtiers and nobles by the most persuasive of European portrait painters, Van Dyck, especially those produced in London during the 1630s. It investigates two related kinds of texts: those which, following Castiglione, model the conduct of the ideal courtier or elite social conduct more generally; and those belonging to the established tradition of debates about the condition of nobility –how far it is genetically inherited and how far a function of excelling moral and social behaviour. Van Dyck is seen as contributing to these discussions through the language of pictorial art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural history, early modern history and Renaissance studies.
Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734085000
Reproduction of the original: The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt