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The Fortunes of the Courtier


The Fortunes of the Courtier

The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano
1. Aufl.

von: Peter Burke

20,40 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 29.04.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9780745665849
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 222

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This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's <i/> Cortegiano <d/> or <i/> Book of the Courtier <d/> from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
List of Plates. <p>Preface and Acknowledgements.</p> <p>Abbreviations.</p> <p>1. Tradition and Reception.</p> <p>2. The <i>Courtier</i> in its Time.</p> <p>3. The <i>Courtier</i> in Italy.</p> <p>4. The <i>Courtier</i> Translated.</p> <p>5. The <i>Courtier</i> Imitated.</p> <p>6. The <i>Courtier</i> Criticized.</p> <p>7. The <i>Courtier</i> Revived.</p> <p>8. The <i>Courtier</i> in European Culture.</p> <p>Appendix 1 Editions of the <i>Courtier,</i> 1528-1850.</p> <p>Appendix 2 Readers of the <i>Courtier</i> before 1700.</p> <p>Bibliography.</p> <p>Index.</p>
<i>"The Fortunes of the Courtier</i> 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." <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> <p><i>"The Fortunes of the Courtier,</i> original, spare and stimulating, is a model monograph." <i>The London Review of Books</i></p> <p>"Burke's painstaking research and engaging speculations make it much easier to see Castiglione's position clearly." <i>Times Higher Education Supplement</i></p> <p> "A readable oscillation between the generalised and the particular." <i>Parergon</i></p>
<b>Peter Burke</b> is Reader in Cultural History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is the author of several books including <i> Venice and Amsterdam </i> (Polity, 1994) and <i> The Art of Conversation </i> (Polity, 1993).
Castiglione's <i>Cortegiano,</i> or <i>Book of the Courtier,</i> first published in 1528, is one of the most famous texts of the Italian High Renaissance, with over a hundred editions printed in numerous languages. In the 19th and 20th centuries, it has generally been read as a text which represented the Renaissance. During the Renaissance itself, however, the book was read for very different reasons: it was a guide to contemporary conduct, not a guide to the values of a past age. <p><br /> The aim of Peter Burke's new book is to understand, if not to close, the gap between these two divergent readings of the <i>Courtier.</i> It also attempts to use the rise, decline and transformation of interest in the <i>Courtier</i> in the first century after its publication as indicators of changing social values, and the regional variations in its reception as a means of exploring the unity and variety of the culture of Renaissance Europe.</p> <p><br /> To achieve these aims, Burke begins with a discussion of the text itself, showing how, in successive editions, the dialogue was presented in different ways, partly in order to appeal to men and women who were insecure about their status. Later chapters chart the history, geography and sociology of enthusiasm for the book as well as the reactions against it, both official and unofficial. The book concludes with a discussion of the later fortune of the <i>Courtier,</i> and its appeal to writers as different as Samuel Johnson and W. B. Yeats.</p> <p><br /> Combining minute research with broad conclusions about the culture of early modern Europe, <i>The Fortunes of the Courtier</i> will be recognized as a major contribution to the history of the Renaissance.</p>

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