‘Felice dolc aventuroso loco’: Courtly Life, the Courtier’s Model and the Myth of Urbino in the Graffiti of the Palazzo Ducale
Baldassar Castiglione described the Palace of Urbino, Italy, as ‘the fayrest that was to be founde in all Italy’ ‘to the opinion of many men’. For Castiglione, such a Palace was the setting of his book The Courtier, published in 1528 but written from 1513-1514 onwards. The book became a kind of mani...
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Firenze University Press
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Early Modern Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/11195 |