Sobre a arte e a necessidade da dissimulação em "Il libro del cortegiano"

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2006

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The book II Libro dei Cortegiano, by Baldassare Castiglione, presents, in the form of dialogues, the precepts that a man should achieve in order to become a perfect courtier. This main subject (the purpose of the work) is carried out by a series of other subjects, such as, too name a few: the issue of the italian language, the art, the individual merit against the nobleness birth, the real function of the courtliness, friendship versus adulation, the importance of first impression and of universal opinion, the addictions, the virtues and the fortune. The work is composed, equally, by references (announced and not announced) of what ancient illustriuos (such as Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Cicero, Ovidio, Horatio, Seneca, Quintilian) had already thought about this matter - perfection - or about others that, for the total fulfillment of the nobleman will be essential: grace, measure or decorum, sprezzatura and dissimulation. The domain of this classical sources constitute one of the aspects of the courteous refinement (and, beeing the Court the scenario of the Cortegiano, the cited references help composing the exemplicity of the work in itself). In fact, maintaining a sprezzata attitude is maintaining an elegant attitude. In a little less complete form, to maintain a dissimulated attitude must consist in a occasional need of concealment with valuable ends, such as orientate the Prince and sustain preserved the cordial and refined climate of the Court. In time, to dissimulate means to deceive, hide something, lie, pretend; sprezzatura, in the meantime, implies deceit, concealment, lie, pretense WITHOUT a visible application of effort. One and another are valuable if harnessed to knowledge: knowledge of yourself, of the circumstances, of Humanities

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renaissance maneirismo (literatura) maneirism corte e cortesãos renascença court and courties

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