Ulick Peter Burke
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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 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…
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