![]() ![]() In 1504 the young courtier moved to Urbino, where he served under Guidobaldo da Montefeltro (1472–1508), holding a semi-military post and carrying out diplomatic missions to Rome and abroad. At 21, Castiglione replaced his recently deceased father as a diplomat and military officer at the court of Francesco Gonzaga in Mantua. ![]() He received a traditional humanistic education in Milan, then was drawn by family’s connections into courtly life. A manual in the form of a dialogue set at the court of the Duke of Urbino in 1507 published in Italian (as Libro del cortegiano) in 1528, in English in 1561.įictional conversations detail the qualities and the conduct of the perfect courtier and define his relationship with his colleagues and his prince.Įvents in History at the Time of the Dialogueīaldesar Castiglione was born in 1478 at Casatico near Mantua, in the region of Lombardy, to an aristocratic family’s (his mother was related to the illustrious Gonzaga dynasty, which ruled the region). ![]()
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