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The Book of the Courtier

Chapter 19: ADDENDUM
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About This Book

A conversational Renaissance dialogue staged at the ducal court of Urbino gathers noble guests who debate the attributes and conduct of an exemplary courtier. Across formal sessions they weigh martial skill and literary accomplishment, music, dance, and the visual arts, and argue for a balance between action and learning. Emphasis falls on decorum, wit, and a cultivated nonchalance that conceals artful effort. Practical rules cover speech, dress, behavior toward superiors and age-appropriate roles, while occasional digressions consider women, affectation, and the limits of perfection. The work blends social portraiture, etiquette, and aesthetic theory to sketch an ideal of graceful public life.

LIST OF EDITIONS

THE LANGUAGE IS ITALIAN UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED
DATES AND NAMES ENCLOSED IN PARENTHESES ARE NOT FREE FROM DOUBT
1528 Venice Aldine Press: fol.: April: opd
1528 Florence The heirs of Filippo di Giunta: 8vo: October: opd
(1529) Tusculano Alessandro Paganino: 12mo: stm
1529 Florence The heirs of Filippo di Giunta: 8vo: opd
1530 Parma Antonio di Viotti: 8vo: opd
1531 Florence Benedetto Giunti: 8vo: opd
1531 Parma Antonio di Viotti: 8vo: ves
1532 Parma Antonio di Viotti: 8vo: stm
1533 Venice Aldine Press: 8vo: with a few poems by Castiglione: exd
1534 Barcelona Pedro Monpezat: fol.: Spanish version by Juan Boscan Almogaver: fab
1537 Florence Benedetto Giunti: 8vo: brm
1537 Paris For Jean Longis and Vincent Sertenas: 8vo: French version by Jacques Colin: exd
(1537) Lyons Denys de Harsy: 8vo: Colin’s French version: opd
1538 Venice Vettor de’ Rabani and associates: 8vo: stm
1538 Venice Giovanni Padovano for Federico Torresano d’Asola: 8vo: exd
1538 Venice Curzio Navò and brothers: 8vo: cor
1538 Lyons Françoys Juste: 8vo: Colin’s French version revised by Estienne Dolet: exd
1539 Venice Curzio Navò for Alvise Tortis: 8vo: stm
1539 s. l. Printer not mentioned: 8vo: abbreviation by Scipio Claudio: maz
1539 Toledo Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: fab
1540 Salamanca Pedro Touans for Guillermo de Milles: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: ace
1540 Paris Printer not mentioned: 8vo: (Colin’s) French version: ala
1541 Venice Aldine Press: 8vo: opd
1541 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo: stm
(1541) s. l. “T-A”: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: fab
1542 Medina Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: brm
(1542) s. l. Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: bnm
1543 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: pas
1544 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: opd
1544 Venice Alvise de Tortis: 8vo: chi
1544 Antwerp Martin Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: fab
1544 s. l. Printer not mentioned: 8vo: maz
1545 Venice Aldine Press: fol.: opd
1545 Paris Printer not mentioned: 12mo: (Colin’s) French version: brm
1546 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: exd
1546 Paris For Arnoul l’Angelier: 12mo: Colin’s French version: opd
1547 Venice Aldine Press: 8vo: opd
1547 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: maz
1549 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo: chi
1549 Venice Alvise de Tortis: 8vo: vel
1549 Paris Gelles Corrozet: ——: (Colin’s) French version: bnt
1549 Paris Jean Lor——: 16mo: (Colin’s) French version: vel
1549 s. l. Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: ves
1550 Lyons Gulielmo Rovillio: 16mo: opd
1551 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari and brothers: 12mo: stm
1552 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari and brothers: 8vo: text revised by Ludovico Dolce: exd
1552 Venice Domenico Giglio: 12mo: opd
1553 Lyons Gulielmo Rovillio: 12mo: brm
1553 Saragossa For Miguel de Çapila: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: fab
1554 Florence The heirs of Bernardo Giunti: 16mo: stm
1556 Venice Girolamo Scoto: 8vo: Dolce’s text: cav
1556 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: Dolce’s text: stm
1559 Venice Simbeni for Bernardin Fagiani: 8vo: with Paolo Giovio’s Life of Castiglione: cav
1559 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: Dolce’s text: brm
1559 Toledo Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: maz
1560 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: Dolce’s text: brm
1561 London William Seres: 4to: English version by Thomas Hoby: brm
1561 Antwerp The widow of Martin Nutio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: ala
1561 Wittenberg Johannes Crato: 4to: Latin version by Hieronymus Turler: jen
1562 Venice Francesco Rampazzetto: 12mo: cav
1562 Venice Printer not mentioned: 8vo: with Giovio’s Life: opd
1562 Lyons Gulielmo Rovillio: 12mo: Dolce’s text: opd
1562 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo: ang
1563 Venice Same edition as the last, with change of date on title-page: maz
1564 Venice Same edition as the last, with change of date on title-page: stm
1564 s. l. Printer not mentioned: 8vo: edition erroneously dated “MDXLIV”: ves
1565 Venice Gerolamo Cavalcalovo: 12mo: Dolce’s text: stm
1566 Munich Adam Berg: 8vo: German version by Lorenz Kratzer: vat
1568 Venice Domenico: 12mo: brm
1569 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo: vel
1569 Wittenberg (Johannes Crato): 8vo: Turler’s Latin version: maz
1569 Valladolid Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version expurgated: brm
1571 London John Day: 8vo: Latin version by Bartholomew Clerke: brm
1573 Venice Comin da Trino: 8vo: with Giovio’s Life: opd
1574 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: maz
1574 Venice Comin da Trino: 8vo: maz
1574 Venice Domenico Farri: 12mo: Dolce’s text: exd
1574 Antwerp Philippo Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: exd
1577 Antwerp Philippo Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: bts
1577 Strasbourg Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Latin version of Book I by Johannes Ritius: ves
1577 London Henry Bynneman: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: exd
1577 London Henry Denham: 4to: Hoby’s English version: brm
(1577) Paris Pierre Gaultier: 16mo: Colin’s French version: opd
1580 Lyons Thibauld Ancelin for Loys Cloquemin: 8vo: French version by Gabriel Chapuis with text: stm
1581 Salamanca Pedro Lasso: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: ols
1584 Venice Bernardo Basa: 8vo: text expurgated by Ciccarelli, with Life by Marliani: stm
1584 Frankfort Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Latin version by Johannes Ritius: ala
1585 London Thomas Dauson: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: brm
1585 Lyons Claude Bourcidan for Jean Huguetan: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version with text: vel
1585 Paris Nicholas Bonfons: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version with text: exd
1585 Paris Georges l’Oyselet for Cl. Micard: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version: exd
1587 Venice Curzio Navò and brothers: 8vo: d’a
1587 Venice Domenico Giglio: 12mo: exd
1588 London John Wolfe: 8vo: Hoby’s English version revised, with text and Chapuis’ French version: opd
1592 Paris Nicholas Bonfons for Abel l’Angelier: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version with text: exd
1593 Venice La Miniana Compagnia: 8vo: Ciccarelli’s expurgation: stm
1593 London George Bishop: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: exd
1593 Dilingen Johann Mayer: 8vo: German version by Johann Engelbert Noyse: ang
1599 Venice Paulo Ugolini: 16mo: Ciccarelli’s expurgation, with Marliani’s Life: ang
1599 Antwerp Philippo Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version expurgated: maz
s. d. s. l. Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: bnm
1600 Florence (The heirs of Filippo di Giunta): 4to: d’a
1601 Venice Giovanni Alberti: ——: jol
1603 London T. Creede: 4to: Hoby’s English version: brm
1603 London George Bishop: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: brm
1606 Venice Giovanni Alberti: 8vo: ves
1606 Frankfort Lazarus Zetzner: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: amb
1612 London Thomas Adams: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: brm
1619 Strasbourg Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin version: cas
1619 Strasbourg The heirs of Lazarus Zetzner: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: brm
1663 Strasbourg For Simon Paullus: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: exd
1667 Strasbourg Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin version: maz
1668 Zürich Printer not mentioned: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin version: maz
1684 Frankfort For Carl Schaeffer: ——: German version by “J. C. L. L. J.”: rei
1690 Paris Estienne Massot for Estienne Loyson: 12mo: French version by (L’Abbé Duhamel): exd
1713 Cambridge William Innys: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version revised by S. Drake: exd
1724 London A. Battesworth and others: 8vo: English version by Robert Samber: nyp
1727 London W. Bowyer: 4to: English version by A. P. Castiglione, with Life and text: opd
1729 London E. Curll: 8vo: Samber’s English version: brm
1733 Padua Giuseppe Comino: 4to: Volpi edition, with other works by Castiglione and Marliani’s Life: opd
1737 London Olive Payne: identical with edition of 1727, title-page changed: opd
1742 London H. Slater and others: identical with edition of 1727, title-page changed: opd
1766 Padua Giuseppe Comino: 4to: Volpi edition, with Life by Pierantonio Serassi: opd
1771 Vicenza Giambattista Vendramini Mosca: 8vo: 2 volumes, with Serassi’s Life: opd
(1772) s. l. Printer not mentioned: 8vo: 2 volumes: d’a
1799 Bassano Remondini: 8vo: 3 volumes, including other works by Castiglione: d’a
1803 Milan La Tipografia dei Classici Italiani: 8vo: bnp
1822 Milan Giovanni Silvestri: 8vo: with Serassi’s Life: brm
1828 Bergamo Mazzoleni: 12mo: 2 volumes: bra
1831 Milan Niccolò Bettoni and the brothers Ubicini: 4to: amb
1842 Venice Girolamo Tasso: 8vo: 2 volumes, expurgated, with Serassi’s Life: opd
1844 Parma Fiaccadori: 16mo: expurgated edition: amb
1848 Copenhagen Schultz: 4to: early French version of Book III, edited by N. C. L. Abrahams: exd
1854 Florence Felice Lemonnier: 8vo: annotated by Count Carlo Baudi di Vesme: opd
1873 Madrid Rivadeneyra for Alfonso Durán: 8vo: Boscan’s version annotated by A. M. Fabié: opd
1884 Turin Libreria Salesiana: 16mo: vel
1884 Florence P. Metastasio for G. C. Sansoni: 16mo: with preface by Giulio Salvadori: opd
1889 Florence Gaspare Barbèra: 8vo: expurgated and annotated by Giuseppe Rigutini: opd
1890 Milan Edoardo Sonzogno: 8vo: with preface by Lodovico Corio: opd
1892 Florence Same edition as that of 1889, with changed date on title-page: opd
1894 Florence Carnesecchi for G. C. Sansoni: 8vo: annotated by Vittorio Cian: opd
1900 London Constable for David Nutt: 8vo: Hoby’s English version edited by Walter Raleigh: opd

ADDENDUM

1900 London Edward Arnold (Essex House Press): 8vo: Hoby’s English version edited by Janet E. Ashbee, with woodcut ornaments by C. R. Ashbee: opd