Ulick Peter Burke
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LOCATION: Cambridge CB1 1EG, United Kingdom
Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Author of The Renaissance Sense of the Past and others.
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Baldassare Castiglione was an Italian courtier, diplomat, and writer best known for his dialogue Il libro del cortegiano (1528; The Book of the Courtier). The son of a noble family, Castiglione was educated at the humanist school of Giorgio Merula and Demetrius Chalcondyles, and at the court of…
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