The Fortunes of the Courtier: The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano

by Peter Burke

Overview

This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745665849
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	04/29/2013
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	222
Sales rank:	311,688
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Peter Burke is Reader in Cultural History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is the author of several books including Venice and Amsterdam (Polity, 1994) and The Art of Conversation (Polity, 1993).

Table of Contents

List of Plates.

Preface and Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations.

1. Tradition and Reception.

2. The Courtier in its Time.

3. The Courtier in Italy.

4. The Courtier Translated.

5. The Courtier Imitated.

6. The Courtier Criticized.

7. The Courtier Revived.

8. The Courtier in European Culture.

Appendix 1 Editions of the Courtier, 1528-1850.

Appendix 2 Readers of the Courtier before 1700.

Bibliography.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

The Fortunes of the Courtier is an important contribution to intellectual history and to the history of the book. It demonstrates how bibliography, textual criticism, and library history can illuminate the mentality of an age.”

—Magill's Literary Annual

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