Autore: Veronika Szekeres
Formato: Copertina flessibile
Pagine: 128
Data Pubblicazione: 2017-10-16
Edizione: 1
Lingua: English
Descrizione:
This book accompanies the reader for an adventurous imaginary journey from the Renaissance Urbin in Italy to the Puritan era in England. The reader can observe the process under which Castiglione perfect Courtier evolves into an English gentleman. Indeed the topic of this book is the transformation of Castigliones book in English literature, the amusing development by which Castigliones book became a classic English volume and how Castigliones perfect Courtier became a model for centuries to European nobility. The author analyzes the original Italian book, Baldassare Castigliones Il libro del cortegiano and Sir Thomas Hobys translation The Book of the Courtier which had a crucial role in this transformation. The topics of the second part of this volume are the pioneering conduct books in the English Renaissance, those of Roger Aschams The Schoolmaster and Sir Thomas Elyots The Book named the Governor. After these two volumes the author explores the development of this genre in the seventeenth century analyzing the volume of Henry Peacham The Compleat Gentleman and that of the puritanical Richard Brathwait The English Gentleman.