The Book of the Courtier (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Résumé
Baldesar CastiglionesThe Book of the Courtier is the High Renaissance in microcosm. It is the portrait of a group of leading thinkers and wits gathered together in the Palace of Urbino in March 1507, playing a game where their task is to delineate the perfect courtier. In their conversations about courtliness they range from chivalry to humanist debates about language, literature, painting and sculpture, to the art of conversation and the telling of jokes, the role and dignity of women, the delicate job of guiding wilful princes, and finally to love and its transcendent form in pure spirit.
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Caractéristiques
Editeur : Barnes & Noble
Publication : 31 août 2009
Intérieur : Noir & blanc
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Contenu(s) : ePub
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)
Taille(s) : 799 ko (ePub)
Langue(s) : Anglais
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9781411430921
EAN13 (papier) : 9780760768327