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THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER
BY COUNT BALDESAR
CASTIGLIONE
BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE
COUNT OF NOVILLARA
1478-1529
Reduced from Braun’s photograph (no. 11.505) of the portrait in the Louvre, painted in 1516 by Raphael (1483-1520). The original belonged to Charles I of England, after whose death it was bought by a Dutch collector and copied by Rubens. Later it became the property of Cardinal Mazarin, from whose heirs it was acquired for Louis XIV of France.
The medallion on the title-page is from a photograph, specially made by Mansell, of a cast, kindly furnished by T. Whitcombe
Greene, Esq., of an anonymous medal in his collection at
Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire. See the late Alfred Armand’s Les
Médailleurs Italiens, ii, 100, no. 10.
THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER
BY COUNT BALDESAR
CASTIGLIONE
(1528)
TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN AND ANNOTATED
BY LEONARD ECKSTEIN OPDYCKE
WITH SEVENTY-ONE PORTRAITS AND FIFTEEN AUTOGRAPHS
REPRODUCED BY EDWARD BIERSTADT
LONDON
DUCKWORTH & CO.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1902
THE DE
VINNE PRESS
Copyright 1901, by
LŧLjƿĵǡŠ EŕƫǪǵŧƗƿ OǙŠΏŕƫŧ
Tƒŧ BLjLjƫ Ljż ǵƒŧ CLjǼǡǵƗŧǡ was written, partly at Urbino and partly at Rome, between the years 1508 and 1516, and was first printed at the Aldine Press, Venice, in the month of April, 1528.
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