W.R. Albury

Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano, 1528), a dialogue in which the interlocutors attempt to describe the perfect courtier, was one of the most influential books of the Renaissance. In recent decades, a number of postmodern readings of this work have appeared, emphasising what is often characterised as the playful indeterminacy of the text, and seeking to...