Francis I and the Courtiers of Castiglione's Courtier

C. Clough

DOI:10.1177/026569147800800103

Corpus ID: 144288791

Francis I and the Courtiers of Castiglione's Courtier

@article{Clough1978FrancisIA,
  title={Francis I and the Courtiers of Castiglione's Courtier},
  author={C. Clough},
  journal={European History Quarterly},
  year={1978},
  volume={8},
  pages={23 - 70}
}

C. Clough
Published 1978
Art
European History Quarterly

There exist in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, two manuscripts which together comprise a complete translation into French of Baldassare Castiglione’s Il libro del Cortegiano. They were originally bound together as a single manuscript thought to be the actual copy destined for King Francis I (1515-47) and presented to him by the translator, Jacques Colin (d. 1547).’ Evidence suggests that Colin’s translation was completed before the beginning of 1537, and one can certainly believe that the… Expand

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