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This is an unusual book to categorize; fundamentally, it's a book of idealised manners, but it has far more discussion and disagreement than you'd see in a modern book, given the form as dialogue. (Do I kind of hate signor Gaspare? Yes, I kind of hate signor Gaspare.) It's amazing as an artifact of Italian Renaissance life, and perhaps sometimes even has good advice! However, it's also a bit long and dense; I don't suggest this if you want a bit of light reading, even if the topic seems frivolou
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Jan 12, 2013
Kathy Jo
marked it as to-read
