* 1528 Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier ( first printing )

* 1478 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author ( d. 1529 )

* The courtiers, like Baldassare Castiglione and Gian Giorgio Trissino, insisted that each local vernacular contribute to the new standard.

While Gilbert emphasizes the similarities however, he agrees with all other commentators that Machiavelli was particularly novel in the way he used this genre, even when compared to his contemporaries such as Baldassare Castiglione and Erasmus.

It was written by Baldassare Castiglione over the course of many years, beginning in 1508, and published in 1528 by the Aldine Press in Venice just before his death ; an English edition was published in 1561.

* December 6 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat ( d. 1529 )

* Baldassare Castiglione publishes The Book of the Courtier.

* February 2 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat ( b. 1478 )

Writers as diverse as Baldassare Castiglione and Martin Luther wrote about his reputation and fame ; theorists such as Heinrich Glarean and Gioseffo Zarlino held his style as that best representing perfection.

There is no indication of an intimate dialogue between the woman and the observer as is the case in the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione ( Louvre ) painted by Raphael about ten years later, and undoubtedly influenced by the work.

Pietro Bembo, Luigi Alamanni and Baldassare Castiglione were among her literary friends.

* Raffini, Christine, " Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione: Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Political Approaches in Renaissance Platonism ", 1998.

* The Book of the Courtier, by Baldassare Castiglione

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His final work, Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects, published in 1992, synthesizes the history of architectural ideas and projects through discussions of the great centres of architectural innovation in Italy ( Florence, Rome, and Venice ), key patrons from the middle of the fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century, and crucial figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Francesco di Giorgio, Lorenzo de ’ Medici, Bramante, Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione and Giulio Romano.

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In general, lute songs were written from about 1550 to around 1650, though there is evidence that some music was performed this way much earlier ( for instance, Baldassare Castiglione mentions that frottola were sometimes performed by solo voice and lute, presumably in the first decade or so of the 16th century.

Vasari tells how Baldassare Castiglione was delegated by Federico Gonzaga to procure Giulio to execute paintings and architectural and engineering projects for the duchy of Mantua.

His last publication, El cortesano ( 1561 ), modeled on Il Cortegiano by Baldassare Castiglione, gives a vivid and entertaining picture of life in the Valencian ducal court.

Boscán was also influenced by another Italian ambassador ( a friend of Navagiero ) named Count Baldassare Castiglione.

Baldassare Castiglione heard him sing, and wrote of him in his famous Book of the Courtier ( Venice, 1528 ), in the same paragraph in which he praises Leonardo da Vinci:

Baldassare Castiglione.

Pietro Pomponazzi was born in 1462, Marcello Adriani Virgilio in 1464, Baldassare Castiglione in 1468, Niccolò Machiavelli in 1469, Pietro Bembo in 1470, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Ariosto in 1474, Jacopo Nardi in 1476, Gian Giorgio Trissino in 1478, and Francesco Guicciardini in 1482.

The Book of the Courtier, by Baldassare Castiglione is one of the first texts that depicted behaviors individuals were expected to adopt in society.

He was descended from Baldassare Castiglione, the author of Il Cortegiano.

Federico's brilliant court, according to the descriptions in Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano (" The Book of the Courtier "), set standards of what was to characterize a modern European " gentleman " for centuries to come.

Hoby translated Martin Bucer's Gratulation to the Church of England ( 1549 ), and Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano ( 1561 ).

In 1983 political satirist / novelist Richard Condon (" The Manchurian Candidate ") wrote " A Trembling Upon Rome ," a novel of historical fiction about the life of Baldassare Cossa.

The decorations are by Giulio Romano and Baldassare Peruzzi, both prime architects in their own right ; Giovanni da Udine did stucco bas-reliefs imitating work found in Nero's recently-rediscovered Domus Aurea ; Giovan Francesco Penni (" il Fattore ") and the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli worked there too.

Much of Hamlets language is courtly: elaborate, witty discourse, as recommended by Baldassare Castiglione's 1528 etiquette guide, The Courtier.

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court by Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528.

* The character Pietro Cardinal Bembo also features prominently in Baldassare Castiglione's work The Book of the Courtier where he speaks about the nature of " Platonic " love.

Baldassare Castiglione, in his Courtier, wrote, of Leonardo, Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, Michelangelo and Giorgione, that " each of them is unlike the others, but each is the most perfect in his style.

The use of the printing press ( aiding the diffusion of works by ancient Latin and Greek authors ; the printing press was introduced in 1470 in Paris, and in 1473 in Lyon ), the development of humanism and Neoplatonism, and the discovery ( through the wars in Italy and through Henry II ’ s marriage with Catherine de ' Medici ) of the cultivated refinement of the Italian courts ( Baldassare Castiglione ’ s book The Courtier was also particularly important in this respect ) would profoundly modify the French literary landscape and the mental outlook ( or “ mentalité ”) of the period.

Among those buried there are the painters Raphael Sanzio da Urbino and Annibale Carracci, the composer Arcangelo Corelli, and the architect Baldassare Peruzzi.

On the opposite wall appear the frescos " The Baptism of St. Clement " by Italian painters Cherubino Alberti and Baldassare Croce, and an " Allegory of Art and Science " by Giovanni and Cherubino Alberti.

During this period he accompanied Count Baldassare Rangoni on his travels, going to Bergamo and Brescia.

The bust on the left is a portrait of Baldassare Peruzzi, derived from a plaster portrait by Giovanni Duprè.

Baldassare Galuppi ( 18 October 1706 – 3 January 1785 ) was an Italian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic.

It premiered at the Fair Saint-Laurent on 19 August with verses for the ariettes provided by Pierre Baurans and with music parodying a variety of composers including Vincenzo Ciampi, Duni, Baldassare Galuppi, and Giuseppe Scarlatti, and also included music attributed to the French composers Jean-Louis Laurette and Philidor.

The Baroque decoration of the church interior was begun in 1644, when Pietro Giambelli frescoed the ceiling with an Assumption as a centerpiece based on designs by Baldassare Franceschini.

In the church there are also the Martyrdom of the Maccabees ( 1863 ) by Antonio Ciseri in the 3rd chapel on the right, the Meeting of St. Anne and St. Joachim, attributed to Michele Tosini, at the end of the right transept, the Assumption of the Virgin with Saints ( 1677 ), attributed to Baldassare Franceschini, at the end of the left transept.

Born in Bologna, Serlio went to Rome in 1514, and worked in the atelier of Baldassare Peruzzi, where he stayed until the Sack of Rome in 1527 put all architectural projects on hold for a time.

* Baldassare Donato becomes maestro di cappella at St. Mark's in Venice, taking over on the death of Gioseffo Zarlino.