El cortesano/ The Courtier (El Libro De Bolsillo: Literatura/ the Pocket Books: Literature) (Spanish Edition)

An insiders view of court life and culture during the Renaissance, here is the handiwork of a 16th-century diplomat who was called upon to resolve the differences in a war of etiquette among the Italian nobility. The ultimate resource on aristocratic manners, it remains the most definitive account of life among the Renaissance nobility.