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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

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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...
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...
Baldassare Castiglione, Conte
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Baldassare Castiglione, Conte , 1478-1529, Italian soldier, author, and statesman...embodied in the person and accomplishments of Sir Philip Sidney. Castiglione's portrait was painted by Raphael (c.1515), his tomb designed...
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...
Advice and Etiquette Books
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...The book of the courtier) of Baldassare Castiglione (1478 – 1529...seeming effort, with what Castiglione called sprezzatura. The book...society was all-important. Castiglione's book seemed to offer the...
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...1524 and published in 1528. Castiglione's courtier appears as a true...in appearance and behavior, Castiglione coined the term sprezzatura...
Sports
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...than ever. In the Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldassare Castiglione (1478 – 1529) set the tone through his...man, his body as well as his soul. According to Castiglione, the perfect man at court was "well built and...
Feminism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...widespread arguments: One of the characters in Baldassare Castiglione's The Courtier (1528) declares that "everything...were already found in Erasmus's writings, and Castiglione, Agrippa, and Van Schurman were translated into...
Gentleman
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...often overlapped. The two ideals are represented in Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano (The courtier; 1528). Written...throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Castiglione's book outlines the qualities of an ideal courtier...
Luis Milán
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...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...

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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...
Etiquette
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...courtesy books such as Giovanni della Casa's Il Galateo (1560) flourished to meet a growing demand, but it was Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528) that most brilliantly epitomized the rules by which the perfect courtier...
Courtesy
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...Courtesy Boy Scouts youth organization, ever ready to perform good deeds. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 59] Castiglione, Baldassare (1478 – 1529) author of The Courtier , Renaissance bible of etiquette. [Ital. Lit.: Plumb...

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"The Ende Therfore of a Perfect Courtier" in Baldassare Castiglione's The Courtier.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...critics have attempted to fit Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano into a...of the gentry. He enlists Castiglione in his cause when he says...comely exercises, Conte Baldassare Castiglione in his book Cortegiano doth...
Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione: Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Political Approaches in Renaissance Platonism.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...as manifested in the work of Pietro Bembo and Baldassare Castiglione. The author contends that (1): "Taken together...writings of Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo and Baldassare Castiglione reveal the philosophical, aesthetic, political...
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...vi excusiate [...]' (Baldassare Castiglione, La seconda redazione, II...Questo povero Cortegiano': Castiglione, il libro, la Storia...
Joking Matters: Politics and Dissimulation in Castiglione's Book of the Courtier [*].(Baldassare Castiglione)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...and the admiration of one's peers, Castiglione characterizes the former as a despot...regional origins and affiliations of Castiglione's courtiers, one might also expect...attention suggests the care with which Castiglione has presented a sense of unity within...
L'etica del Rinascimento tra Platone e Aristotele.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...as manifested in the work of Pietro Bembo and Baldassare Castiglione. The author contends that (1): "Taken together...writings of Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo and Baldassare Castiglione reveal the philosophical, aesthetic, political...
The King's Favorite
Magazine article from: Humanities; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Italian writer and diplomat Baldassare Castiglione published a book that became...corteggiano (The Courtier). Castiglione's book concerns many topics...and qualities discussed in Castiglione's book. These included excellent...
Urbino, Gem of the Renaissance Federico's Palace Epitomizes World of Refinement
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/21/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...half of the 15th century. Baldassare Castiglione, the leading contemporary...world). Indeed, a story in Castiglione's ''Courtier,'' epitomizing...Federico's palace, which Castiglione described as ''a city in...
Well played! Or why an English gent should never win at tennis
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 6/29/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...gentleman learnt a lot from Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier...the Renaissance sensibility. Castiglione says that a gentleman should...self-denying ordinance, as Castiglione would have explained if he...
Milton's Neo-Platonic angel?
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Leone Ebreo, and especially [Baldassare] Castiglione." Readers generally agree...Cardinal Pietro] Bembo in [Castiglione's] The [Book of the] Courtier...Bembo's reaction to Ficino, Castiglione's construction of Bembo...
Family matters: Aristotle's appreciation of women and the plural structure of society.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...similar controversy, reported in Baldassare Castiglione's sixteenth-century dialogue...judged on precisely this basis. Castiglione's interlocutors discuss the...Of course, the standards of Castiglione's court of Urbino are not...