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THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER
BY COUNT BALDESAR
CASTIGLIONE
BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE
COUNT OF NOVILLARA
1478-1529
Reduced from Braun’s photograph (no. 11.505) of the portrait in the Louvre, painted in1516 by Raphael (1483-1520). The original belonged to Charles I of England, afterwhose death it was bought by a Dutch collector and copied by Rubens. Later itbecame the property of Cardinal Mazarin, from whose heirs it was acquired for LouisXIV of France.
The medallion on the title-page is from a photograph, specially made by Mansell, of a cast,kindly furnished by T. Whitcombe Greene, Esq., of an anonymous medal in his collectionat Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire. See the late Alfred Armand’s Les MédailleursItaliens, ii, 100, no. 10.
