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Galateo (Paperback)
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Galateo (Paperback)
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Loot Price R410
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Galateo is a treatise on polite behavior written by Giovanni Della
Casa (1503-56) for the benefit of his nephew, a young Florentine
destined for greatness. In the voice of a cranky yet genial old
uncle, Della Casa offers the distillation of what he has learned
over a lifetime of public service as diplomat and papal nuncio. As
relevant today as it was in Renaissance Italy, Galateo deals with
subjects as varied as dress codes, charming conversation and
off-color jokes, eating habits and hairstyles, and literary
language. In its time, Galateo circulated as widely as
Machiavelli's Prince and Castiglione's Book of the Courtier.
Mirroring what Machiavelli did for promoting political behavior,
and what Castiglione did for behavior at court, Della Casa here
creates a picture of the refined man caught in a world in which
embarrassment and vulgarity prevail. Less a treatise promoting
courtly values or a manual of savoir faire, it is rather a
meditation on conformity and the law, on perfection and rules, but
also an exasperated - often theatrical-reaction to the diverse ways
in which people make fools of themselves in everyday social
situations.
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