CASTIGLIONE
(1478-1529)
THE COURTIER
Here’s what Castiglione had to say about musicianship:
Castiglione on Musicianship.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
- Why does the Renaissance need advice books on basic behavior?
- What does this phenomenon have to do with the rise of the market economy?
- If the “self” in the Renaissance is now a construct to be fashioned and the culture fosters a hyperconsciousness about this, where does identity come from?
- Is this senss of identity different from the Anglo-Saxon sense of identity?
Works Cited
“Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529) — conte di Novilara.” Books and Writers. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/castigli.htm.
Castiglione, Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier. Trans. Sir Thomas Hoby. 1561. Renascence Editions.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier1.
Castiglione, Baldassare. The Book of the Courtier. Excerpts. Literature of the Western World, Vol. I. 5th ed. by Brian Wilkie and James Hurt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2001. 2293-2300.