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Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian
courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of
this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the
Courtier (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal: his
experiences at court and their subsequent rewriting form the
backbone of the work. The author then addresses questions of
biography, gender, genre, and the varied roles of the courtier,
expanding the perspective of Castiglione's text to include the
lives and writings of other courtiers and patrons. What was it like
to be a courtier? What were the problems associated with such a
lifestyle? The importance of women in court circles is also
highlighted in studies of one of the most notable of female patrons
Isabella d'Este (1474-1539) and of the theoretical developments in
writing about gender, stimulated by such women. Stephen Kolsky's
analysis of both well-known and comparatively obscure texts brings
out the diversity of practices that constituted court society and
their centrality to our understanding of the Renaissance.
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