Author: Baltasar Gracián y MoralesPublisher:
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Category : Courts and courtiers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Courtier's Oracle
Author: Baltasar Gracián y MoralesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts and courtiers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Oráculo manual, etc. The Courtier's Oracle; or, the Art of Prudence ... Done into English
Author: Baltasar Gracián y MoralesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Fortunes of the Courtier
Author: Peter BurkePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271015170
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Castiglione's Cortegiano, or the Courtier, is one of the best-known texts of the Italian Renaissance. When it first appeared in 1528, the Courtier was widely read as a guide to contemporary conduct. Its popularity led to its publication in six languages in twenty different European centers in the sixteenth century alone. While the text itself has been studied very carefully in recent years as the embodiment of the spirit of the High Renaissance, its multitude of readers, spread over the world, has received much less attention. In this engaging study Peter Burke explores how readers over the years have responded to the Courtier. Because it was read so widely in Europe, the Courtier affords Burke an ideal test case for the diffusion and reception of ideas. From Poland and Hungary to England, Portugal, and even the New World, he takes us on a fascinating tour of the courts, libraries, and reading rooms of Europe in search of Castiglione's idea of the perfect courtier. He shows how changing responses to the Courtier, both positive and negative, reveal changing social values and how regional variations in its reception reflect the emerging cultural map of early modern Europe. His evidence includes printing history, translations, marginalia, and records of sale and possession. He concludes with a discussion of the later fortune of the Courtier, including its role in the "civilizing process" and its curious appeal to writers as different as Samuel Johnson and W. B. Yeats. Informed by Burke's considerable knowledge of printing and publishing history, this book contributes to our growing understanding of the history of the book and to our knowledge of the Renaissance and its reception.
The Courtiers Manual Oracle
Author: Baltasar Gracián y MoralesPublisher:
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Category : Courts and courtiers
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Spanish Literature in English Translation
Author: Angel FloresPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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The Book of the Courtier
Author: conte Baldassarre CastiglionePublisher:
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Category : Courtesy
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Literary Bypaths of the Renaissance
Author: Elbert Nevius Sebring ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Author: William Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Novels: Leila. Calderon the courtier. Pansanias the Spartan 1896
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron LyttonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Leila; Or The Siege of Granada and Calderon the Courtier
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron LyttonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description