The Book of the Courtier
Author | : Baldassarre Castiglione |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Baldassarre Castiglione |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : conte Baldassarre Castiglione |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Courtesy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Burke |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2013-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745665845 |
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 | : Baldassare Castiglione |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2018-08-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781387895397 |
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 | : Matthew Stewart |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2007-01-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0393071049 |
"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 | : Baltasar Gracián |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-01-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0141966971 |
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 | : conte Baldassarre Castiglione |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Courtesy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mario Biagioli |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2018-12-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022621897X |
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 |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317169484 |
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 | : Giovanni Della Casa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1811 |
Genre | : Carving (Meat, etc.) |
ISBN | : |
Courtesy book, specifically intended for children. First appears in Italian in 1558.