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Florence, heirs of Filippo Giunta, 1531. In 8°. On the title page and finally the Giuntina brand with the heraldic lily and putti on the side, spaces for drop caps with guide letters, scattered blushing, halo on the first leaves and on the last ones with the white ones partially detached, brown morocco binding from the 16th century. XVIII, on the plates and on the back decoration embossed in gold, in the center of the field, unidentified arms with a shield in black morocco surmounted by a prelatic hat with 3 orders of bows, on the back gold stars, gilt edges.
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Rare third edition. Over 60 editions until the end of the sixteenth century, translated into all known languages, the only true manual of behavior for court life. One of the most representative texts of the Italian Renaissance, which had a great influence on European literature for over a century (see Shakespeare, Corneille, Cervantes, etc.). In the form of a dialogue, it takes place over four nights with the intervention of two interlocutors per session. In the first book Cesare Gonzaga is little more than a coadjutor of Ludovico di Canossa, who develops the theme of the nobility of the courtier also addressing the problem of language. In II, Bibbiena's jokes are a comic manifestation of the methods described by Federico Fregoso on the skills of the courtier; the III is an authentic discussion on the woman of the palace between Giuliano de' Medici and the anti-feminist Gaspare Pallavicino. In the IV the Platonic doctrine of love professed by Bembo appears as the sublimation of the relationship between the courtier, society and the prince.
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