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

Penguin Classics, October 1963. Mass Market PaperBack. Two famous, firsthand accounts of the holy war in the Middle Ages translated by Margaret R. B. Shaw Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a...... More