Baldassare Castiglione's Renaissance dialogue imagines the perfect courtier over four candlelit evenings at Urbino, weighing grace, wit, love and virtue with the ease of good company and the…
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At the ducal palace of Urbino, the lamps are lit and the evening's game is proposed: to…
What follows is one of the Renaissance's most influential conversations.
What it's about The Book of the Courtier unfolds across four nights as a company of…