Audiobook: The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of the Courtier Author: Baldassare Castiglione Narrator: Nicholas Boulton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 11, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Set in the court of Urbino in 1507, Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier presents an invaluable look at court life and culture during the Renaissance. Over four nights of dialogue, the book explores the key question, 'What should a courtier be like?' and presents a deep and timeless discussion that is reminiscent of Plato's Symposium and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and invites comparisons with Machiavelli's The Prince. It is absorbing and enlightening, and encompasses a wide range of topics that include dancing, fencing, war, religion, culture, courtly and corporeal love and gender relations, with a surprisingly modern defense of women and equal rights.