Only show
results for:

Topics related to " Baldassare Castiglione"

Baldassare Castiglione, Conte
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 ... Read more
Montefeltro
Montefeltro , Italian noble family. Its members were noted patrons of art and traditionally opposed the papacy in the struggle between Guelphs and Ghibellines . The county of Montefeltro (created c.1154) included parts of Romagna, the Marches, and San Marino. Oddantonio Montefeltro (d. 1444) was th... Read more
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Conte
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Conte , 1463-94, Italian philosopher and humanist. To many in the age of the Renaissance, Pico was the ideal man, whose physical beauty reflected his inner harmony. He appears in Il Cortegiano of Baldassare Castiglione. In 1484 he went to Florence where he soon becam... Read more
Raphael Santi
Raphael Santi or Raphael Sanzio, Ital. Raffaello Santi or Raffaello Sanzio , 1483-1520, major Italian Renaissance painter, b. Urbino. In Raphael's work is the clearest expression of the exquisite harmony and balance of High Renaissance composition. Early Training, Influence, and Work ... Read more
Renaissance
Renaissance [Fr.,=rebirth], term used to describe the development of Western civilization that marked the transition from medieval to modern times. This article is concerned mainly with general developments and their impact in the fields of science, rhetoric, literature, and music. For a discussion... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Baldassare Castiglione"

Baldassare Castiglione
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Baldassare Castiglione The Italian author, courtier, and diplomat Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529) is known primarily...humanism into England and France. Baldassare Castiglione was born on Dec. 6, 1478, in... Read more
Castiglione, Baldassare (1478 – 1529)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE (1478 – 1529) CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE (1478 – 1529), Italian writer and diplomat. The fame of Baldassare Castiglione rests with his dialogue-treatise Il cortegiano... Read more
Castiglione, Baldassare
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Castiglione, Baldassare (1478–1529), Italian humanist, chiefly known for his prose dialogues Il libro del cortegiano (1528), translated into English... Read more
Baldassare Castiglione, Conte
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...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... Read more
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Conte
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Renaissance, Pico was the ideal man, whose physical beauty reflected his inner harmony. He appears in Il Cortegiano of Baldassare Castiglione. In 1484 he went to Florence where he soon became one of the most active members of Lorenzo de'Medici's Platonic... Read more
Caricature and Cartoon
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...in the late sixteenth century. It emerges as the ideas of civility and sociability, codified in the work of Baldassare Castiglione (1478 – 1529), Giovanni della Casa (1503 – 1556), and Stefano Guazzo (1530 – 1593), spread... Read more
Court and Courtiers
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...created a new literary genre was Baldassare Castiglione's (1478 – 1529) Il Cortegiano...1524 and published in 1528. Castiglione's courtier appears as a true...in appearance and behavior, Castiglione coined the term sprezzatura... Read more
รก
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...y caualleros; Intitulado el juego de mandar (1535), and El Cortesano (1561; The Courtier ), an imitation of Baldassare Castiglione's popular etiquette book, Il Cortegiano (1528). Like the other Spanish vihuela tablatures, El Maestro purports... Read more
Montefeltro
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Francesca. Federico's son, Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, 1472-1508, lost and regained (1502-3) the duchy from Cesare Borgia. Guidobaldo's court was a center of Renaissance culture, and he provided the model for The Courtier of Baldassare Castiglione . Read more
Humor
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Erasmus (1466? – 1536) and Thomas More (1478 – 1535) and exemplified by the noble speakers in Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528)? Can we clearly separate "popular" from "refined" or "learned" humor? And why... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Baldassare Castiglione"

liberal arts
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...1500 painting and sculpture were generally accepted as liberal arts by Italian humanists (significantly so in Baldassare Castiglione's influential Book of the Courtier of 1528, which was translated into English in 1561). However, as Anthony... Read more

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

Decorum and indecorum in the Seconda redazione of Baldassare Castiglione's Libro del Cortegiano.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...manuscript (i524, published 1528) Castiglione rewrote almost half of the...voi vi excusiate [...]' (Baldassare Castiglione, La seconda redazione, II...Questo povero Cortegiano': Castiglione, il libro, la Storia, (2...1524 (published in 1528)--Castiglione rewrote almost half of the... Read more
The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2007; ; 639 words ; ...including Andrea Trevisan (absent from the book' s index), Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Titus Livius, Pietro Carmeliano, Baldassare Castiglione, Polidoro Virgilio, Guido Mazzoni, Pietro Torrigiano, Pietro Griffi, and Andrea della Rena. Wyatt further traces... Read more
Raphael at the National Gallery.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Giovanni Santi as his court-painter, and attracted Baldassare Castiglione, later Raphael's close friend, to Urbino. In his dialogue on good manners, The Courtier's Handbook, Castiglione enrols as speakers the residents of the ducal court... Read more