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All the Queen's Men: Elizabeth I and Her Courtiers by Neville Williams
Baldassare Castiglione, The Perfect Courtier: His Life and Letters, 1478-1529 by Julia Mary Cartwright Ady
Celebrities of the Italian Renaissance in Florence and in the Louvre by Robert de la Sizeranne
Cesare Borgia: His Life and Times by Sarah Bradford
A Concise History of Italy by Christopher Duggan
Do You Think You're Clever? The Oxford and Cambridge Questions by John Farndon
Elizabeth & Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics by Sarah Gristwood
The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of the Society by A. L. Rowse
The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson
The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World by Lacey Baldwin Smith
The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth
Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation by Karl F. Thompson
On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards by Douglas Biow
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy
Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna by Ramie Targoff
Sister Wendy's Story of Painting by Wendy Beckett
Treasury of Italian Folklore and Humor/#07481 by Henry Spalding

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Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529), count of Casatico, was an Italian Renaissance courtier, diplomat, soldier, and author. He is best known for The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528.
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