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Second Giolito edition of the classic Renaissance manual of courtly behaviour.

First printed in 1528, Castiglione’s conduct manual set at the court of Urbino became a pan-European bestseller. The Aldine press issued it six times between 1528 and 1547; Gabriele Giolito’s first edition was in 1541, after the expiration of the ten-year Venetian privilege. The title claims that the text has been revised, though it repeats that of the 1541 Aldine, which had Tuscanised some of the orthography, in line with contemporary editorial practice. The Giolito firm printed the Book of the Courtier around ten times, adding various paratexts and claims of revision each time. The text, however, attracted the interest of the Inquisition and later sixteenth-century editions were required to be expurgated before printing.

Provenance:
The Rev. Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates (1842–1903) owned a substantial library of early printed books, and in particular emblem books. Many of his books were rebound by the notable London binder Roger de Coverly (1831–1914).

EDIT16 CNCE 10072; USTC 819504; Bongi I, p. 75. See Richardson, Print culture in Renaissance Italy (1996), pp. 124–125.