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The Book of the Courtier

By Baldesar Castiglione, George Bull (Translator), George Bull (Introduction)
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By Baldesar Castiglione, George Bull (Translator), George Bull (Introduction)
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‘The courtier has to imbue with grace his movements, his gestures, his way of doing things and in short, his every action’

In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour – chiefly discretion, decorum, nonchalance and gracefulness – as w...

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