This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

An insider's view of court life and culture during the Renaissance, here is the handiwork of a 16th-century diplomat who was called upon to resolve the differences in a war of etiquette among the Italian nobility. The ultimate resource on aristocratic manners, it remains the most definitive account of life among the Renaissance nobility.

巴尔达萨雷·卡斯蒂廖内（1478 –1529），文艺复兴时期意大利诗人。他起初服务于曼图亚侯爵弗朗西斯科·贡扎加。1504年进入乌尔比诺宫廷，为圭多巴尔多·达·蒙特费尔特罗公爵效力。1521年成为一名神职人员，1529年死于托莱多。其代表作《廷臣论》体现了文艺复兴时期人文主义思想文化的内涵和特征，不仅享誉当时的文坛，还对后来的欧洲思想文化进程产生了独特的影响。《廷臣论》以美妙的文笔虚构了发生在1507年间乌尔比诺公爵与其廷臣之间的谈话。

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...(展开全部)

In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. In this fascinating cultural and social history of science, Biagioli argues that Galileo's courtly role was integral to his science - the questions he chose to examine, his methods, even his conclusion...(展开全部)

In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. In this fascinating cultural and social history of science, Biagioli argues that Galileo's courtly role was integral to his science - the questions he chose to examine, his methods, even his conclusion...(展开全部)

The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal--India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia--are home to one in four people on Earth. "Crossing the Bay of Bengal" places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental history, and mining a wealth of sourc...(展开全部)

This sociological classic is updated with a new preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.

作者简介： 威拉德·斯特恩·兰德尔（Willard Sterne Randall）主要研究美国建国时期的历史，曾在罗马的约翰·卡伯特大学、佛蒙特大学和尚普兰学院任教。他撰写过本杰明和威廉·富兰克林、本尼迪克特·阿诺德、托马斯·杰斐逊、乔治·华盛顿和亚历山大·汉密尔顿等人的传记。其中，本尼迪克特·阿诺德的传记获得了四项美国国家最佳图书奖，是“《纽约时报》重要图书”（New York Times Notable Book），并入围了“《洛杉矶时报》图书奖”（Los Angeles Times Book Prize）的决选；杰斐逊的传记被《出版商周刊》（Publishers Weekly）评为1993年十大最佳传记之一。兰德尔曾获得美国革命圆桌会议（American Revolution Round Table）的最高荣誉——优异奖（Award of Me...(展开全部)