Creator
Castiglione, Baldesar.
Title
Il Libro del Cortegiano del Conte Baldesar Castiglione.
Publisher
Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresani,
Date
August 1528.
Description
The first edition of The Courtier, which sets forth in a series of dialogues the ideal conduct and learning of the perfect Renaissance gentleman. The author, Baldesar Castiglione (1478–1529), ordered 30 copies of this book printed on large paper, ostensibly as presentation copies, of which this is one. Bound in contemporary Italian goatskin, with the signature of Benedetto Accolti (1497–1549), Cardinal of Ravenna, on the titlepage.
Source
From the collection of T. Kimball Brooker.