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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Book of the Courtier
At the same time though, the courtier is expected to have a warrior spirit, to be athletic and to have good knowledge of the humanities, classics, and how to draw and paint.
The matter is the nobleman, the form is the species (courtier) by which he is surrounded and which moulds him by its conventions, the moving cause (the shaper) is Castiglione (or, fictionally, Fregoso) and the final cause is the purpose of the courtier.
The woman courtier has the same goal: "for it were not unfitt for the woman also to instruct her ladye, and with her to drawe to the same ende of Courtlinesse, whiche I have said is meete for the Courtier with his prince" (4.14, p.
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 The Book of the Courtier
This English translation of The Book of the Courtier is that of Sir Thomas Hoby (1561) as edited by Walter Raleigh for David Nutt, Publisher, London, 1900, and partakes of the virtues and faults, as may be, of that edition.
The fourth, of the end of a Courtier, and of honest love.
To have an understandinge in all thinges belonginge to the Courtier, that she maye gyve her judgemente to commend and to make of gentilmen according to their worthinesse and desertes.
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