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771:, and Canossa maintains that because the ideal courtier must be a man of arms, skilled in horsemanship, he needs to be of noble birth. To this, another interlocutor, a very youthful Gaspare Pallavicino, objects that many outstanding and virtuous men have been of humble origins. The other participants eventually agree that even someone who is lowly born can be a perfect courtier, since nobility can be learned through imitation of the best models from life and history until it becomes ingrained and natural. This, at least, is the theory; but in practice, they concede, it is easier to become a perfect courtier if one is born into a distinguished family. In any case, the ideal courtier should be able to speak gracefully and appropriately with people of all stations in life. The French are wrong to assert that a knowledge of letters conflicts with fighting ability. The courtier should be deeply versed in Greek and Latin and should know enough to be able to discriminate between good and bad writing (as well as the other arts) for himself, without relying slavishly on the word of others. The participants also deplore what they consider the rude and uncultivated manners of the French, who they say look down with disdain on what they call a "clerk" (or someone who can read and write), though hope is expressed for
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when an old man. Indeed, the wisest ancient philosophers taught that the heavens themselves are composed of music and there is a harmony of the spheres. Music likewise promotes habits of harmony and virtue in the individual and should therefore be learned beginning in childhood.
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letters he wrote to her that have survived. Sadly, Ippolita died a mere four years after their marriage, while Castiglione was away in Rome as ambassador for the Duke of Mantua. In 1521 Pope Leo X conceded to him the
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knight who distinguished himself by his prowess on the battlefield. Castiglione's book changed that. Now the perfect gentleman had to have a classical education in Greek and Latin letters, as well. The
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1284:(1933, reprint: Transaction Publishers, 2011), p. 371.
1450:(State College, Pa.: Penn State Press, 2008), p. 26.
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1298:Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities
1049:holds a significant collection of editions of
767:The ideal courtier, then, must act with noble
936:, the sourcebook for later etiquette guides.
1490:A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance
1351:during the Middle Ages. See Hannis Taylor,
676:The Ducal Palace at Urbino, setting of the
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1556:, vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring, 1980), pp. 1-32.
1505:(Penn State University Press, 1995) p. 34.
1225:(University of Chicago Press, 1997), p. 87
1156:(lordship) of Casatico (today part of the
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1842:Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Texts
1687:, Milan, FrancoAngeli, 2015, pp. 211-233.
1386:, which has not been preserved; Cicero's
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1294:Lawrence Cunningham, John Reich (2006).
1271:(London: Frances Lincoln, 2003), p. 168.
984:for Elisabetta Gonzaga, in the style of
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1936:1478 births
1743:, pp. v-vi.
1593:Shakespeare
1527:sprezzatura
1461:De officiis
1444:De officiis
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972:Minor works
941:Thomas Hoby
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827:Machiavelli
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370:Elisabetta
242:newspapers
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1752:Osborne,
1730:, p. 171.
1582:, p. 160.
1569:, p. 160.
1565:Osborne,
1400:Augustine
1172:La Storia
1031:Calandria
876:Symposium
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524:Charles V
432:Sannazaro
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188:Biography
1896:LibriVox
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1475:, p. 37.
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304:Lombardy
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640:by the
567:Vatican
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