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Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael, showing a bearded man in a dark robe with a fur collar and a black cap, seated against a plain background.
Raphael: portrait of Baldassare Castiglione Baldassare Castiglione, portrait by Raphael, 1514–15; in the Louvre, Paris.

Baldassare Castiglione

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Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Author of The Renaissance Sense of the Past and others.
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Baldassare Castiglione (born December 6, 1478, Casatico, near Mantua [Italy]—died February 8, 1529, Toledo [Spain]) was an Italian courtier, diplomat, and writer best known for his dialogue Il libro del cortegiano (1528; The Book of the Courtier), a book of etiquette and a classic of Italian literature that was widely read when it was published. The son of a noble family, Castiglione was educated at the humanist school of Giorgio Merula and Demetrius Chalcondyles, and...

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