Bartholomew Clerke's Castiglione : can a pedant be a gentleman?

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From the early fourteenth century until well into the sixteenth, Italy was setting the tone in the arts of graceful living, in sophistication, good manners and general culture, much to the somewhat reluctant gratitude of other parts of Europe. Baldassare Castiglione's // Cortegiano (1528) was one of the major books that taught Italian manners and the arts of sophistication to the rest of Europe.