Book of the Courtier: A Norton Critical Edition » (1st Edition)

Daniel Javitch is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author of Poetry and Courtliness in Renaissance England, Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of Orlando Furioso, and is at work on a book tentatively entitled Thinking About Genre in the Sixteenth Century. He has been, since 1972, a director of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

Charles S. Singleton was Professor Emeritus of Hispanic and Italian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He also translated Boccaccio’s Decameron and Dante’s The Divine Comedy, and was awarded Italy’s Order of Commendation for his contributions to the study of Italian literature.

The Book of the Courtier (1528) is a series of fictional conversations by courtiers of the Duke of Urbino that takes place in 1507, while Castiglione was himself attaché to the Duke.

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<:st>This 16th-century treatise on etiquette, social problems, and intellectual accomplishments is cited in . Here, the Singleton translation is accompanied by 10 critical and historical works, a Castiglione chronology, and a select bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)