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See also:CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE (1478–1529) , See also:Italian diplomatist and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at Casanatico near See also:Mantua, and was educated at See also:Milan under the famous professors See also:Merula and Chalcondyles. In 1496 he entered the service of Lodovico See also:Sforza, See also:duke of Milan, returning to Mantua in 15o -when Lodovico wascarried prisoner into See also:France. In 1504 he was attached to the See also:court of Guidobaldo Malatesta, duke of See also:Urbino, and in 'so(' he was sent by that See also:prince on a See also:mission to See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VII. of See also:England, who had before conferred on Federigo Malatesta, " the See also:Good Duke," the most famous See also:mercenary of his See also:age, the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the Garter. Guidobaldo dying childless in 1508, the duchy of Urbino was given to See also:Francesco Maria della Rovere, for whom Castiglione, See also:envoy at the court of See also:Leo X. (See also:Medici), obtained the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of generalissimo of the Papal troops. Charged with the arrangement of the dispute between See also:Clement VII. (Medici) and See also:Charles V., Castiglione crossed, in 1524, into See also:Spain, where he was received with highest honours, being afterwards naturalized, and made See also:bishop of See also:Avila. In 1527, however, See also:Rome was seized and sacked by the Imperialists under See also:Bourbon, and in See also:July of the same See also:year the surrender of the See also:castle of Sant' Angelo placed Clement in their hands. Castiglione had been tricked by the See also:emperor, but there were not wanting accusations of treachery against himself. He had, however, placed fidelity highest among the virtues of his ideal " courtier," and when he died at See also:Toledo in 1529rit was said that he had died of grief and shame at the imputation. The emperor mourned him as " one of the See also:world's best cavaliers." A portrait of him, now at the Louvre, was painted by See also:Raphael, who disdained neither his See also:opinion nor his See also:advice.
Castiglione wrote little, but that little is of rare merit. His verses, in Latin and Italian, are elegant in the extreme; his letters (See also:Padua, 1769–1771) are full of See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and finesse. But the See also:book by which he is best remembered is the famous See also:treatise, Il Cortegiano, written in 1514, published at See also:Venice by Aldus in '.528, and translated into See also:English by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Hoby as See also:early as 1561. This book, called by the Italians Il Libro d'oro, and remarkable for its easy force and undemonstrativq elegance of See also:style no less than for the See also:nobility and manliness of its theories (see the edition by V. Cian, See also:Florence, 1894), describes the Italian See also:gentleman of the See also:Renaissance under his brightest and fairest aspect, and gives a charming picture of the court of Guidobaldo da Montefeltre, duke of Urbino, " confessedly the purest and most elevated court in See also:Italy." In the See also:form of a discussion held in the duchess's See also:drawing-room—with Elizabetta See also:Gonzaga, Pietro See also:Bembo, Bernardo Bibbiena, Giuliano de' Medici, See also:Emilia Pia, and Ceretino the Unique among the speakers—the question, What constitutes a perfect courtier? is debated. With but few See also:differences, the type determined on is the ideal gentleman of the See also:present See also:day.
See P. L. Ginguene, Histoire litteraire de l'Italie, vi., vii. ; J. A. See also:Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy (See also:London, 1875) ; C. See also:Hare, Courts and Camps of the Italian Renaissance (1908); Julia See also:Cartwright, B. Castiglione, the Perfect Courtier (1908), with good bibliography.
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