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The Book of the Courtier
conte Castiglione and Leonard Eckstein Opdycke Baldassarre
Four evenings at the palace of Urbino, the wittiest company in Renaissance Italy, one question: what makes the perfect courtier? Castiglione's dialogues cover arms, letters, love, humor, and the effortless grace called sprezzatura. The conduct book that taught Europe its manners for centuries. Conversation elevated to a lost art form.
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22 chapters
- 1THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER BY COUNT BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE
- 2TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4LIST OF PLATES
- 5INTERLOCUTORS
- 6TO THE REVEREND AND ILLUSTRIOUS LORD DOM MIGUEL DE SILVA,[1] BISHOP OF VISEU
- 7THE FIRST BOOK OF THE COURTIER BY COUNT BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE
- 8THE SECOND BOOK OF THE COURTIER BY COUNT BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE
- 9THE THIRD BOOK OF THE COURTIER BY COUNT BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE
- 10THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE COURTIER BY COUNT BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE
- 11NOTES
- 12PRELIMINARY NOTES
- 13NOTES TO THE DEDICATORY LETTER
- 14NOTES TO THE FIRST BOOK OF THE COURTIER
- 15NOTES TO THE SECOND BOOK OF THE COURTIER
- 16NOTES TO THE THIRD BOOK OF THE COURTIER
- 17NOTES TO THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE COURTIER
- 18LIST OF EDITIONS OF THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER
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