TY  - BOOK
AU  - Castiglione,Baldassarre,conte
AU  - Opdycke,Leonard Eckstein
TI  - The Book of the Courtier
AV  - BJ 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Courtesy -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Courts and courtiers -- Early works to 1800
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Courtier; Release date is 2022-04-08; KD Weeks, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Originally published; United Kingdom: Duckworth & Co., 1901
N2  - "The Book of the Courtier" by conte Baldassarre Castiglione is a philosophical dialogue composed between 1508 and 1528. Set over four evenings at the Renaissance court of Urbino, the work presents courtiers debating what makes an ideal gentleman worthy of serving a prince. They discuss noble rank, physical prowess, artistic knowledge, proper speech, and the mysterious quality of *sprezzatura*—a studied nonchalance that conceals effort. The book also explores humor, love, and the nature of the perfect court lady, creating a portrait of a vanishing world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://archive.org/details/bookofcourtier1902cast/page/n9/mode/2up
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67799
ER  -