Book of the Courtier (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Baldesar Castiglione''s The Book of the Courtier is the High Renaissance in microcosm. It is the portrait of a group of leading thinkers and wits gathered together in the Palace of Urbino in March 1507, playing a game where their task is to delineate the perfect courtier. In their conversations about courtliness t...
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Baldesar Castiglione''s The Book of the Courtier is the High Renaissance in microcosm. It is the portrait of a group of leading thinkers and wits gathered together in the Palace of Urbino in March 1507, playing a game where their task is to delineate the perfect courtier. In their conversations about courtliness t...
