Fortunes of the Courtier

Peter Burke is Reader in Cultural History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is the author of several books including Venice and Amsterdam (Polity, 1994) and The Art of Conversation (Polity, 1993).

"The Fortunes of the Courtier is a valuable book. It should lead on to further important work, as its author suggests, especially as he has provided an invaluable bibliography and appendices detailing editions up to 1850 and known readers before 1700." Times Literary Supplement "The Fortunes of the Courtier, original, spare and stimulating, is a model monograph." The London Review of Books"Burke's painstaking research and engaging speculations make it much easier to see Castiglione's position clearly." Times Higher Education Supplement"A readable oscillation between the generalised and the particular." Parergon

• List of Plates. Preface and Acknowledgements.Abbreviations.1. Tradition and Reception.2. The Courtier in its Time.3. The Courtier in Italy.4. The Courtier Translated.5. The Courtier Imitated.6. The Courtier Criticized.7. The Courtier Revived.8. The Courtier in European Culture.Appendix 1 Editions of the Courtier, 1528-1850.Appendix 2 Readers of the Courtier before 1700.Bibliography.Index.