The Book of the Courtier

The Book of the Courtier
Author: Baldassarre Castiglione
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1928
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:248927606

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The Book of the Courtier

The Book of the Courtier
Author: Baldassarre conte Castiglione
Publsiher: Good Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2022-08-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: EAN:4064066426583

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"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.

The Fortunes of the Courtier

The Fortunes of the Courtier
Author: Peter Burke
Publsiher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2013-04-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780745665849

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This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

The Book of the Courtier A Historic Guide to Manners and Etiquette in the Royal Courts of Renaissance Europe

The Book of the Courtier  A Historic Guide to Manners and Etiquette in the Royal Courts of Renaissance Europe
Author: Baldassare Castiglione,Sir Thomas Hoby
Publsiher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1387895397

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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.

The Courtier and the Heretic Leibniz Spinoza and the Fate of God in the Modern World

The Courtier and the Heretic  Leibniz  Spinoza  and the Fate of God in the Modern World
Author: Matthew Stewart
Publsiher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2007-01-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780393071047

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"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.

Galileo Courtier

Galileo  Courtier
Author: Mario Biagioli
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780226218977

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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.

Castiglione s Allegory

Castiglione s Allegory
Author: W.R. Albury
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781317169482

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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.

How to Achieve True Greatness

How to Achieve True Greatness
Author: Baldesar Castiglione
Publsiher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2005-08-25
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780141965024

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.