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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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