Galateo: Or, The Rules of Polite Behavior

Giovanni, Della Casa

University of Chicago Press

Excerpt from Delle Prose Volgari di Monsignor Giovanni della Casa, Vol. 2: Contenente le Orazioniventura: onde mi giova. Fperare clic qualunque tar danza per effe'r giudica ta e davoi, e dagli altri dee gna di compatimento e di fcufa. Ora. Poi che il pm dif ferire potrebbe affermi at tribuito a inefcufabil man panza ho rifoluto di appa gare 1' univerfale afpettazio ne con pubblicare il picleu te volume contenente le Graziani di Monlignor della Cafa ed alfii frammenti.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Courtesy books have a special relationship to the age that produces them. By attempting to codify manners, styles, ideals and values of a society, they reveal the principles and presuppositions that shape and animate their world. Galateo does this brilliantly. It reflects the personal experience, wisdom, disappointments, and ambitions of its clerical but worldly-wise author as well as the fundamental values of his age. And, given that his age was that of the transformation from the High Renaissance in Italy to the world of the Counter-Reformation, and that Della Casa was an important actor in the events of his time, the lessons are particularly valuable and worth considering. Archbishop Giovanni Della Casa (1503-1556) was an influential Vatican diplomat, papal nuncio to Venice, and instrumental in the establishment of the Venetian Inquisition and in its 1549 Index of Prohibited Books. He was also an accomplished poet, an arbiter of taste, and the most influential writer on social practice of his time. His book, Galateo, has in fact provided the modern Italian term for good manners: ânot to know the galateoâ is to have no manners at all!

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