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- The Book of the Courtier
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United Kingdom: Duckworth & Co., 1901.
Credits
KD Weeks, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2022-04-08
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
conte Baldassarre Castiglione
1478–1529
A Renaissance diplomat, soldier, and writer, he is best remembered for shaping the ideal of the polished courtier in one of the most influential books of the 16th century. His work helped define manners, education, and elegant self-control for generations of European readers.
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