The Book of the Courtier: From the Italian of Count Baldassare Castiglione (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Castiglione, Baldassarre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331647347 ISBN 13: 9781331647348

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2016

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Poggio the Florentine, Secretary of the Apostolic See, Poggio or with the Betti e Fatti, piacevoh' e gravi, di diversi Principi, Filosofi e Cortigiam', compiled and 'reduced to morality' by the sober Guicciardini, or with any other in Guicciardini the estimable and prolific family of Renaissance jest-books.

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The Renaissance is the name of a European movement so gradual, broad, manifold, and subtle, that any attempt to reduce it to a single expression is predestined to failure. No formula less vague and magniloquent than Michelet's - 'the discovery' by man of himself and of the 'world' - can be stretched to cover the diverse aspects of that great era of change. On all sides there was a loosening of bonds, and a widening of horizons, 'deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind.' The extension of man's territorial domain, and of his imaginative prospect, by the discovery of the New World, the shattering of his most familiar conceptions by the brilliant conjectures of Copernicus, are two signal achievements which may perhaps be taken as emblematic of all the rest. By these the mediaeval scheme of the physical universe, and with it the mediaeval theory of divinity and politics, to which it was so delicately and symmetrically fitted, were to be finally overthrown. At the same time the rediscovery and reconstruction of classical antiquity by the labours of scholars gave to imagination a new focus, and to humanity a new model.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1331647347
• ISBN 13: 9781331647348
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 474