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

Peter Burke (Author)

9780745611518, Polity Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 October 1995

224 pages
22.8 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm, 0.312 kg

"The Fortunes of the Courtier is a valuable book. It should lead on to further important work, as its author suggests, especially as he has provided an invaluable bibliography and appendices detailing editions up to 1850 and known readers before 1700." Times Literary Supplement

"The Fortunes of the Courtier, original, spare and stimulating, is a model monograph." The London Review of Books

"Burke's painstaking research and engaging speculations make it much easier to see Castiglione's position clearly." Times Higher Education Supplement

"A readable oscillation between the generalised and the particular." Parergon

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

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.

Subject Areas: History [HB]
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