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Peter Burke

The Fortunes of the Courtier

The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano

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Castiglione's Cortegiano, or Book of the Courtier, first published in 1528, is one of the most famous texts of the Italian High Renaissance, with over a hundred editions printed in numerous languages. In the 19th and 20th centuries, it has generally been read as a text which represented the Renaissance. During the Renaissance itself, however, the book was read for very different reasons: it was a guide to contemporary conduct, not a guide to the values of a past age. The aim of Peter Burke's new book is to understand, if not to close, the gap between these two divergent readings of the Courtier. It also attempts to use the rise, decline and… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7456-7682-1
  • EAN: 9780745676821
  • Produktnummer: 16375439
  • Verlag: Wiley
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 222 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 27'831 KB

Über den Autor


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).

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