Baldassare Castiglione, Conte , 1478-1529, Italian soldier, author, and statesman attached to the court of the duke of Milan and later in the service of the duke of Urbino. His famous Libro del cortegiano (1528, tr. The Courtier, 1561), a treatise on etiquette, social problems, and intellectual accomplishments, is one of the great books of its time. Written at a time when the author served as envoy to Pope Leo X, it gives a vivid and elegant picture of 15th- and 16th-century court life. His book had enormous influence on behavior at courts as far away as England, where it contributed to an ideal of aristocracy embodied in the person and accomplishments of Sir Philip Sidney. Castiglione's portrait was painted by Raphael (c.1515), his tomb designed by Giulio Romano, and his epitaph composed by Bembo.
Bibliography: See studies by W. A. Rebhorn (1978) and R. W. Hanning and D. Rosand (1983).
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"The Ende Therfore of a Perfect Courtier" in Baldassare Castiglione's The Courtier.(Critical Essay)
Philological Quarterly; 6/22/1998; NORTHROP, DOUGLAS A.; 4051 words;
... attempted to fit Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano ... Ultimately, Castiglione's book lives ... recognize that Castiglione's Cortegiano ... with which Castiglione maintains ... He enlists Castiglione in his cause ... exercises, Conte Baldassare Castiglione in his ...
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"A wanton trade of living"? Rhetoric, Effeminacy, and the Early Modern Courtier.
Criticism; 3/22/2000; RICHARDS, JENNIFER; 11105 words;
... So begins Castiglione's Il libro ... tolerant of Castiglione's defense ... observes, Conte Baldassare Castiglione in the book ... References to Baldassare Castiglione's Il cortegiano ... Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano ...
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Gendered style in Italian art criticism from Michelangelo to Malvasia.
Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1995; Sohm, Philip; 22109 words;
... certainly not unique to Castiglione, that endows woman ... those beliefs were. Castiglione intends us to identify ... Yet inadvertently Castiglione indicates his complicity ... own needs) that Castiglione's women fully manifest ... diligence. (103) Baldassare Aloisi succeeded ... Blunt, 97 proposed ...
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Imagination all compact: tavolette and confraternity rituals for the condemned in renaissance Italy: Larry J. Feinberg traces the history of the ideas that lay behind tavolette, devotional images held up to the faces of condemned men as they were led to execution.
Apollo; 5/1/2005; Feinberg, Larry J.; 9695 words;
... soul-kiss became a leitmotif for Baldassare Castiglione, whose lengthy, lyrical description ... Francesco Salviati and Jacopino del Conte, are realized in an extravagantly ... 73 and 179-81. (63) Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, edited ...
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Subjects, objects, authors: the portraiture of women in Giulia Bigolina's Urania.(Critical Essay)
Italian Culture; 9/22/2000; Nissen, Christopher K.; 5743 words;
... di Novellieri italiani posseduti dal conte Anton Maria Borromeo, gentiluomo padovano ... effective than the other (Leone 326-328). Castiglione, for his part, is inclined to exalt ... e la virtu visiva. ); see Opere di Baldassare Castiglione, Giovanni della Casa, Benvenuto Cellini ...
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