This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... THE SECOND BOOK OF THE COURTIER BY COUNT BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE TO MESSER ALFONSO ARIOSTO 1--I have often considered not without wonder whence arises a fault, which, as it is universally found among old people, may be believed to be proper and natural to them. And this is, that they nearly all praise ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... THE SECOND BOOK OF THE COURTIER BY COUNT BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE TO MESSER ALFONSO ARIOSTO 1--I have often considered not without wonder whence arises a fault, which, as it is universally found among old people, may be believed to be proper and natural to them. And this is, that they nearly all praise bygone times and censure the present, 4inveighing against our acts and ways and everything which they in their youth did not do; affirming too that every good custom and good manner of living, every virtue, in short every thing, is always going from bad to worse. And verily it seems quite contrary to reason and worthy to be wondered at, that ripe age, which in other matters is wont to make men's judgment more perfect with long experience, should in this matter so corrupt it that they do not perceive that if the world were always growing worse, and if fathers were generally better than children, we should long since have reached that last grade of badness beyond which it is impossible to grow worse. And yet we see that not only in our days but in bygone times this failing has always been peculiar to old age, which is clearly gathered from the works of many ancient authors, and especially of the comic writers, who better than the others set forth the image of human life. Now the cause of this wrong judgment among old people I for my part take to be, that the fleeting years despoil them of { many good things, and among others in great part rob the blood of vital spirits; whence the complexion changes, and those organs become weak through which the soul exerts its powers.'9 Thus in old age the sweet flowers of contentment fall from our hearts, like leaves from a tree in autumn, and in place of serene and sunny thoughts, comes cloudy and turbid...
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This text is excellent if you're interested in learning what European courtier's were interested in. It's a great read!
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Jul 10, 2008
Castiglione's Class
Only for serious scholars of the Italian Rennaisance since Castiglione is mentioned in many contemporary poems ,government papers and in everyone's letters at the time .He also mentions many inside anecdotes about famous nobility in this work. The work however is very dry for the average reader as it relates to manners and characteristic of courtiers and the ladies of the court. Modern readers might find that the nobility had too much time on their hands ,their "games" of discussing the mannerisms of the nobility not much fun, and concerns somewhat silly.(or maybe that's just me!). It does seem to define the Western concept of "class" not in the political sense but in the social sense("A class act")
