Il Cortegiano, or l’honnête homme
Baldassare Castiglione, by Raphael* *Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520) L’honnête homme was not necessarily an honest man. He was a “gentleman,” for want of a...
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The Medici Crest In 1513,[1] fifteen years before Castiglione published his Cortegiano (1528), Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527), published The Prince (Il Principe), first entitled De...
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