The Book of the Courtier (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, October 1976. Trade Paperback. 'The courtier has to imbue with grace his movements, his gestures, his way of doing things and in short, his every action' In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential..... More