1. Baldassare Castiglione
Baldassare Castiglione was an Italian diplomat, writer, and courtier, and one of the most influential authors in Europe during the Renaissance. He wrote poetry in various genres. Il Libro del Cortegiano, or, The Book of the Courtier, was his most well known work. It is a Renaissance courtesy book, comprised of four sections of dialogues, which describe conversations held at the court of Urbino on four successive nights in 1507. In first book each arrive contribution on there contradicting opinion in a game or form of a play. Each character are Federico Fregoso, Lodovico di Canossa, Bernardo Bibbiena, Giuliano de' Medici, Pietro Bembo, Ottaviano Fregoso, and Emilia Pia, and the hostess, Elisabetta Gonzaga, who acts as the moderator. .
Book I is describes the desirable qualities of a courtier, his manner, education, physical and mental abilities. Book II is devoted to language and speech, and to the proper way of address in formal and informal social settings. Book III describes female comportment, conduct, and education, and especially focuses on chastity and matter related to love. Book IV examines the role of the ideal courtier in following his duty to the royalty in service to the court and state. It discusses the proper education of the prince, and gives models of the best forms of political organization. The book concludes with a rhapsody on Platonic Love. .
The Courtier is made up of a series of dialogues, debates on various topics of interest to the courtier who wishes to act on the best possible manner. It begins with great amount detail on setting and on glorious memory's of Duke Federico. It unravel the deeds he did and how his life was notable and never to be forgotten. Then start to explain about his illness and how his ladies where very power in there wisdom. It would be very impressing if anyone could get to the woman of Duchess because she hinders her self away. .
Then it begins with major satire on principle of being a true professional courtier.
... result, humanism was reflected in all types of literary works; rhetorical pieces, poetry, historical accounts, and even books on education and daily life. Baldassare Castiglione, a diplomat and military advisor from Milan, was significantly influenced by the spread of humanism. He was a great example of how this new thought ... impacted writers of the age, even those from the church. Castiglione became a papal ambassador to Spain and an author, having an extreme fascination in classical literature and its ideals, and the Latin language ( ... should conduct oneself, in love, war, and his...
... and physician, changed his name twice, and invented the word alcohol (wikipedia.org). Important Renaissance authors were Andrea Alciato, Ludovico Ariosto, Leonardo Bruni, Giovanni Boccaccio, Erasmus, Michel de Montaigne, Petrarch, Baldassare Castiglione, Coluccio Salutati, Francois Rabelais. Andrea Alciato was a jurist in France in the 1500s, who was very smart and wrote a lot of short, Latin essays. Ludovico Ariosto was a poet in Italy ... the Renaissance its name, and was a humanist poet who wrote many poems and works of literature, most addressed to an unknown women named Laura, who ...
... the second room, in 1514 Raphael was in such demand that assistants completed much of his work from then on. There are some exceptions however including portraits like that of Baldassare Castiglione (1514/15). This individual piece alone has been admired by many artists. Titian, it is believed, was deeply influenced after seeing this piece on display in the house of the ... ...
... individualism and humanism prevailed. These Renaissance ideals produced new educational and political theory and a new standard of moral thought. Humanists labored to create a structure for education and training of rulers. Baldassare Castiglione wrote the widely read The Courtier, which the young man into the court ideal, a well-rounded gentleman. This book changed the pattern of conduct of the elite across Europe. ...
... , music and rhetoric. Early Renaissance Italian humanists such as Battista Guarino and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini asserted that a man must study the humanities to acquire virtue and to attain enlightenment. Likewise, Baldassare Castiglione, an Italian diplomat and author, instructed modern Renaissance gentleman in The Book of the Courtier to become learned in a wide variety of subjects including the humanities, classical poetry, and in ... ...
... . Raphael gradually changed his techniques, assimilating the new methods of Leonardo da Vinci. Raphael produced a number of paintings in Rome including Julius II (1511-1512), Madonna della Sedia (1513-1514), Baldassare Castiglione (1514- 1515), La Donna Velata (1516). La Donna Velata represents Raphael's ideal beauty. Both Leonardo and Raphael characterise their individuals in similar ways. In Leonardo's Mona Lisa (1503), her expression ... ...
... the signorial courts of the city-states. These humanists began to develop ideas about the proper conduct of courtiers, or the noble men and women of the courts. In 1518, Baldassare Castiglione, the most renowned humanist involved in the courtier movement, completed the Book of Courtier, which was based on his experiences at the court of Urbino, Italy. This refined book of ... ...