The court. Castillion Baldasser

The essay of the Italian diplomat, writer and poet Baldassar Castillo (1478–1529) “The court”, connecting the memories of the court life of the Duchy of Urbino at the beginning of the 16th century with thoughts about morality, purpose, style of behavior of the nobleman close to the sovereign, is one of Those books of the Renaissance that did not lose popularity over the next centuries and were loved by the most brilliant minds of their and future centuries. For the history of culture, the work of Castillone was a genuine treasury, and it is difficult to imagine how more scarce the knowledge of the descendants about the Renaissance would be, if it had not been created.

compiled in the form of a collection of entertaining and witty conversations, this is a brightly and naturally written work goes beyond the source of information about the court entertainment of its time and a list of advantages of a perfect courtier as a comprehensively educated and sophisticated man, ideal from the point of view of humanistic performances. Creating a “courtier” almost simultaneously with the well -known Treatise of Machiavelli “Sovereign”, Castillone demonstrates a fundamentally different approach to the question of what a real politics and a person who are performing is.

, surprisingly, in the almost five hundred -year history of this famous book, not a single full translation into Russian was implemented, only separate fragments were published. And finally, we have the opportunity to get acquainted with the famous literature monument in full translation.