Baldassare Castiglione: References & Edit History

Critical studies include Daniel Javitch, Poetry and Courtliness in Renaissance England (1978), focusing on Elizabethan poets; Wayne A. Rebhorn, Courtly Performances: Masking and Festivity in Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (1978), a study of literary form; J.R. Woodhouse, Baldesar Castiglione: A Reassessment of The Courtier (1978), a treatment from the perspective of Italian literary history; and Peter Burke, The Fortunes of The Courtier: The European Reception of Castiglione’s Cortegiano (1995), which concentrates on the reactions of 16th-century readers. Other studies of Castiglione, his influence, and his era are Peter DeSa Wiggins, Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of Courtliness (2000); W.R. Albury, Castiglione’s Allegory: Veiled Policy in the Book of the Courtier (1528) (2014); Harry Berger, Jr., The Absence of Grace: Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books (2000); and Douglas Biow, In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy (2010).