- Boscán Almogáver, Juan by Eric Woods
... its traditional system of metrics. Among his compositions, written in different combinations of the 11-syllable line, are sonnets and canciones. He also translated Castiglione's Courtier. His works were first printed in 1543 together with those of his collaborator and friend Garcilaso de la Vega.
- Courtling by Webster's
n.) A sycophantic courtier...
- Buckingham by Matthew Long
... Duke of. 1592--1628, English courtier and statesman; favourite of James I and Charles I: his arrogance, military incompetence, and greed increased the tensions between the King and Parliament that eventually led to the Civil War his son, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of. 1628--87, English courtier and writer; chief minister of Charles II and member of the Cabal (1667 ...
- Kurtis by Joan Ellis
Kurtis is a masculine given nameEnglish: Variant of Curtis: Polite, courteous. Also, variant abreviation of SydneyGerman: Courtier
- Baldassare Castiglione by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born Dec. 6, 1478, in Casatico, near Mantua; died Feb. 2, 1529, in Toledo, Spain. Italian writer.Castiglione’s best-known work is The Courtier. (books 1–4, 1528), a treatise in dialogue form. In the spirit of late humanism, Castiglione enumerated the qualities of the ideal courtier, or, in a broader sense, of the well-brought-up, broadly educated man with a ...