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CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE. Il Libro del Cortegiano. [5], 195 leaves. 8vo, 152x100 mm, early 19th-century vellum boards with slight discoloration, spine darkened; contents lightly dampstained and dampwrinkled, title soiled; 1/4 morocco folding case. Booklabel of Bent Juel-Jensen. (Venice: House of the Sons of Aldus), 1541
Third Aldine edition. Renouard, page 121(1); New UCLA 299. from the library of henry howard, earl of northampton (1540-1614), with his calligraphic signature and various mottoes and quotations in Greek, Latin, and Italian on the title, and over 200 marginal annotations in italian in his hand. In his 1995 study The Fortunes of the Courtier: The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano, pages 79-80, Peter Burke discusses this copy in detail as a prime example of the influence of the book on the aristocracy in Renaissance England, describing the marginalia as 'the fullest and most systematic annotations on Castiglione known to me.'
