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The Book of the Courtier

conte Baldassarre Castiglione

with Marliani’s Life: 1599 Antwerp Philippo Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version maz expurgated: s. d. s. l. Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish bnm version: 1600 Florence (The heirs of Filippo di Giunta): 4to: d’a 1601 Venice Giovanni Alberti: ——: jol 1603 London T. Creede: 4to: Hoby’s English version: brm 1603 London George Bishop: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: brm 1606 Venice Giovanni Alberti: 8vo: ves 1606 Frankfort Lazarus Zetzner: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: amb 1612 London Thomas Adams: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: brm 1619 Strasbourg Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin cas version: 1619 Strasbourg The heirs of Lazarus Zetzner: 8vo: Clerke’s brm Latin version: 1663 Strasbourg For Simon Paullus: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin exd version: 1667 Strasbourg Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin maz version: 1668 Zürich Printer not mentioned: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin maz version: 1684 Frankfort For Carl Schaeffer: ——: German version by “J. rei C. L. L. J.”: 1690 Paris Estienne Massot for Estienne Loyson: 12mo: exd French version by (L’Abbé Duhamel): 1713 Cambridge William Innys: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version exd revised by S. Drake: 1724 London A. Battesworth and others: 8vo: English nyp version by Robert Samber: 1727 London W. Bowyer: 4to: English version by A. P. opd Castiglione, with Life and text: 1729 London E. Curll: 8vo: Samber’s English version: brm 1733 Padua Giuseppe Comino: 4to: Volpi edition, with opd other works by Castiglione and Marliani’s Life: 1737 London Olive Payne: identical with edition of 1727, opd title-page changed: 1742 London H. Slater and others: identical with edition opd of 1727, title-page changed: 1766 Padua Giuseppe Comino: 4to: Volpi edition, with Life opd by Pierantonio Serassi: 1771 Vicenza Giambattista Vendramini Mosca: 8vo: 2 volumes, opd with Serassi’s Life: (1772) s. l. Printer not mentioned: 8vo: 2 volumes: d’a 1799 Bassano Remondini: 8vo: 3 volumes, including other d’a works by Castiglione: 1803 Milan La Tipografia dei Classici Italiani: 8vo: bnp 1822 Milan Giovanni Silvestri: 8vo: with Serassi’s Life: brm 1828 Bergamo Mazzoleni: 12mo: 2 volumes: bra 1831 Milan Niccolò Bettoni and the brothers Ubicini: 4to: amb 1842 Venice Girolamo Tasso: 8vo: 2 volumes, expurgated, opd with Serassi’s Life: 1844 Parma Fiaccadori: 16mo: expurgated edition: amb 1848 Copenhagen Schultz: 4to: early French version of Book exd III, edited by N. C. L. Abrahams: 1854 Florence Felice Lemonnier: 8vo: annotated by Count opd Carlo Baudi di Vesme: 1873 Madrid Rivadeneyra for Alfonso Durán: 8vo: Boscan’s opd version annotated by A. M. Fabié: 1884 Turin Libreria Salesiana: 16mo: vel 1884 Florence P. Metastasio for G. C. Sansoni: 16mo: with opd preface by Giulio Salvadori: 1889 Florence Gaspare Barbèra: 8vo: expurgated and annotated opd by Giuseppe Rigutini: 1890 Milan Edoardo Sonzogno: 8vo: with preface by opd Lodovico Corio: 1892 Florence Same edition as that of 1889, with changed opd date on title-page: 1894 Florence Carnesecchi for G. C. Sansoni: 8vo: annotated opd by Vittorio Cian: 1900 London Constable for David Nutt: 8vo: Hoby’s English opd version edited by Walter Raleigh: ADDENDUM 1900 London Edward Arnold (Essex House Press): 8vo: Hoby’s opd English version edited by Janet E. Ashbee, with woodcut ornaments by C. R. Ashbee: INDEX INDEX Ability to perform his highest functions, necessary to the courtier, even if he be not called on, 283 Abrahams, N. C. L., 421 Absurd similes, 129 Accolti, Benedetto, 333 Bernardo,—see Unico Aretino Pietro, 333 Accomplishments, etc., of the courtier; how to be employed, 81 et seq.; the proper aim of, 246 et seq. Achaia, 171, 387 Achilles, 61, 62, 64, 284, 348, 349, 414 Acquapendente, 158, 382 Adams, Thomas, 421 Adrian VI, 317, 413 Adriatic, the, 8 Adulation of princes, 248 Ady, Mrs. Henry, 338, 399 Æneas, 339, 393 Æneid, a quotation from the, 365 Æschines, 51, 54, 344 Æsop, 78, 356, 357 Affectation: to be avoided, 35, 83; instances of: in oratory, 35; in dancing, 36; in attire, 36; in riding, 37; in boasting, 37; in music, 37; in painting, 37; in speech, 38; in preferring to practise that in which one does not most excel, 117 “Aforesaid,” story about a Sienese who mistook Aforesaid for a name, 130 Age, the courtier’s functions affected by his, 281, 283-4 Agesilaus, 250, 408 Agilulph, Duke of Turin, 393 Agnello, Antonio, 126, 361-2 Giulio, 362 Agone, the Piazza d’, 249, 407 Aguilar, the Marquess of, 384 Alamanni, 149-50 Albert III, Duke of Bavaria, 374 Alberti, Giovanni, 421 Albizzi, 370 Albret, Charlotte d’, 377 Alcibiades, 57, 89, 356, 402 Aldana, Captain, 152, 379 Aldine Press, 315, 419 Aldus (Teobaldo Manucci), 315, 329, 332, 394, 405 Alessandrina Library at Rome, 417 Alexander the Great, 28, 34, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 68, 70, 103, 109, 142, 146, 205, 207, 210, 212, 274, 275, 284, 285, 338, 348, 351, 358, 401, 411, 414 Alexander III, 364 Alexander VI (Roderigo Lenzuoli Borgia), 10, 126, 147, 216, 318, 328, 336, 340, 361, 365, 367, 369, 371, 372, 375, 377, 380, 382, 395, 397, 400 Alexander Jannæus, King of the Jews, 191, 389 Alexandra, Queen of the Jews, 191, 389 Alexandria in Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great, 274, 411 Alexandria, the Bishop of, (Giannantonio di Sangiorgio), 142, 372 Alexandrian Cardinal, the, (Giovanni Antonio di Sangiorgio), 142, 372 Alfonso I of Naples, 146, 153, 156, 375-6 Alfonso II of Naples, 10, 327, 363, 383, 397, 398, 400 Alfonso the Magnanimous,—see Alfonso I of Naples Alidosi, Francesco,—see Pavia, the Cardinal of Almada, Brazaida de,—see Castagneta, the Countess of Juan Baez de, 384 Almogaver,—see Boscan Altamura, the Prince of, 399 Altoviti, 149-50 Alva, the Duke of, 315 “Amadis of Gaul,” 405 Amalasontha, Queen of the Goths, 202, 393 Ambrogini, Angelo,—see Poliziano Benedetto, 345 Ambros, 359 Ambrosiana Library at Milan, 417 Amiable manners necessary to the courtier, 91 Ancelin, Thibauld, 420 Ancona, absurd duelling of two cousins of, 30 Angelica Library at Rome, 417 Angelier, Abel l’, 421 Arnoul l’, 419 Angoulême, Count Charles d’, 346 Monseigneur d’,—see Francis I of France Anichino, a character in Boccaccio, 164 Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, 202, 371, 395, 396 Anne of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, 371 Antæus, 275, 411 Antigonus, King of Macedon, 351 Antiphanes, 364 Antonello da Forli, 147, 376 Antonio di Tommaso, 375 Antonius, Marcus, (the orator), 44, 51, 339 Apelles, 37, 68, 70, 338, 351, 402 Apennines, 8, 43 Aphrodite, 387, 388 Apollo, 356 Apollo Belvedere, 349, 410 Aptitude for fun, requisite in a man who would be amusing, 154 Apulia, use of music in, as a cure for bite of tarantula, 15 Aquila, Serafino dall’,—see Serafino dall’Aquila Aquino, the Bishop of,—see Mario de’ Maffei Aragon, Alfonso II of Naples,—see Alfonso II of Naples Alfonso V of,—see Alfonso I of Naples Beatrice, Queen of Hungary, 204, 336, 397, 399, 400 Catherine, wife of Henry VIII of England, 412 Eleanora, Duchess of Ferrara, 204-5, 336, 363, 397, 398, 399 Federico III of Naples,—see Federico III of Naples Ferdinand of,—see Ferdinand the Catholic Ferdinand I of Naples,—see Ferdinand I of Naples Ferdinand II of Naples,—see Ferdinand II of Naples Ferdinand the Just, 375 Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, 400 Isabella, Duchess of Milan, 204, 327, 381, 398, 400 Joanna, wife-aunt of Ferdinand II of Naples, 327, 397 Juan II, King of Navarre and, 397 Juana, wife of Philip of Austria, 413 Ludovico, Cardinal, 159, 341, 383 Archaisms of speech discussed, 39-54 Archiuzow, an alleged Russian translator of THE COURTIER, 324 Arco, MS. bibliographical notes by the late Count d’, 417 Ares, 411 Aretino, Pietro, 333 Unico, (Bernardo Accolti),—see Unico Aretino Argentina, madonna, 196 _Arguzie_, 121, 143 Arion, 349 Ariosto, Alfonso, 2, 7, 75, 171, 243, 320 Ludovico, 320, 336, 345 Aristippus of Cyrene, 59, 348 Aristobulus I, King of the Jews, 389 Aristodemus, 264, 409 Aristogeiton, 390 Aristotle, 34, 57, 63, 284-5, 286, 323, 370, 374, 388, 391, 409, 414 Arms, the courtier’s true profession, 25 Arms vs. letters, 60-2 Arnold, Fr., 337 Arrogance of princes, 248-9 Art, enjoyment of beauty in nature increased by a knowledge of, 69 Artemisia, 205, 400-1 Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England, 412 Artifice, discussion on, 118 Artifice in love, deprecated, 165-6 Ascension, Venetian festival of the, 131, 364 Ascham, Roger, 316 Asia, 101, 275 _Asinus Domino Blandiens_, one of Æsop’s fables, 357 Asnapper (Sardanapalus), 206, 401 Aspasia, 197, 390-1 Assurbanipal (Sardanapalus), 206, 401 Atanagi’s _Rime Scelte_, 331 Athena, 387 Athenian dialect: spoken with excessive care by Theophrastus, 5; not rigidly adhered to by excellent Greek authors, 47 Athens, 101, 197 feminine constancy commemorated by a statue at, 192 Athos, Mount, 274, 411 Atri, Giacomo d’, (Count Pianella),—see Pianella Attendolo, Muzio, called Sforza, 381 Attire appropriate to the courtier, 102-4 Augustus, 190, 388, 401 Aurelian, the Emperor, 401 Austria, Margarita of, 202, 395-6 Maximilian of,—see Maximilian I Philip of, 413 Autharis, King of the Lombards, 393 Ayola, Maria de, 317 Bacon, Francis, afterwards Lord Verulam, 316 Bactria, 285, 414 Bad government, the evils of, 249 Bad master, the courtier to leave the service of a, 99, 285 Baja, 274, 410 Bajazet II of Turkey, 141, 173, 372, 388 Balance and contrast, in art and character, 83 Baldi, Bernardino, 327 Baldness, jests about Bernardo Bibbiena’s, 122, 155