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Editore: Penguin Books Ltd 1976-06-24, Harmondsworth, 1976
ISBN 10: 0140441921ISBN 13: 9780140441925
Da: Blackwell's, London, Regno Unito
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paperback. Condizione: New. Language: ENG.
Editore: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1976
Da: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Penguin classics. Edition; Reprinted with revisions. Physical description; 367 p. ; 20 cm. Notes; This translation originally published: 1967. Summary; 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 well as wider questions such as the duties of a good government and the true nature of love. Castiglione's narrative power and psychological perception make this guide both an entertaining comedy of manners and a revealing window onto the ideals and preoccupations of the Italian Renaissance at the moment of its greatest splendour. Subjects; Courts and courtiers. Essays, journals, letters & other prose works. Fiction / Classics. 1 Kg.
Editore: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1976
Da: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
Prima edizione
First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Penguin classics. Edition; Reprinted with revisions. Physical description; 367 p. ; 20 cm. Notes; This translation originally published: 1967. Summary; 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 well as wider questions such as the duties of a good government and the true nature of love. Castiglione's narrative power and psychological perception make this guide both an entertaining comedy of manners and a revealing window onto the ideals and preoccupations of the Italian Renaissance at the moment of its greatest splendour. Subjects; Courts and courtiers. Essays, journals, letters & other prose works. Fiction / Classics. 1 Kg.