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Baldassare Castiglione

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born

November 18, 1478 in Casatico (near Mantua), Italy

died

January 13, 1529

gender

male

genre

Politics, Nonfiction

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Count Baldassare (of) Castiglione was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.

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Books by Baldassare Castiglione

Average rating: 3.46 · 410 ratings · 33 reviews · 11 distinct works

	The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione, Leonard Eckstein Opdycke (Translator) 3.41 avg rating — 474 ratings — published 1528 — 55 editions	My rating:
	How to Achieve True Greatness 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Etiquette for RNnaissance Gentlemen by Baldassare Castiglione, George Bull (Translation) 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Courts and Camps of the Italian Renaissance: Being a Mirror of the Life and Times of the Ideal Gentleman Count Baldassare Castiglione by Baldassare Castiglione, Christopher Hare 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Balthasaris Castilionis Comitis Libri IV. de Curiali Sive Aulico Ex Italico Sermone in Latinum Conversi Interprete Bartholomaeo Clerke. Recensuit Samu 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Letterede Conte Baldessar Castiglione V1-2: Ora Per La Prima VOLTA Date in Luce E Con Annotazioni Stoiche Illustrate (1769) by Baldassare Castiglione, Pierantonio Serassi 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Renaissance Man 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Wise Animals by Eilís Dillon, Aesop, Mary Howitt 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1975	My rating:
	The Book of the Courtier from the Italian of Count Baldassare Castiglione by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Baldassare Castiglione, Thomas Hoby 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Courts & Camps of the Italian Renaissance: Being a Mirror of the Life and Times of the Ideal Gentleman Court Baldassare Castiglione Derived Largely fr by Christopher Hare, Baldassare Castiglione 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Quotes by Baldassare Castiglione

“Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.”
― Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier

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“Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.”
― Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading Series

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