Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Italian courtesy-books
=Transcriber’s Note:= Since the original book did not have headings in the text, selected page headers have been used as sidenotes to indicate the sections set out in the table of contents.
Chapters
1. Part 1
=Transcriber’s Note:= Since the original book did not have headings in the text, selected page headers have been used as sidenotes to indicate the sections set out in the table...
2. Part 2L’ oltra che segue è questa: quando tu è alli convivi, Onde si à bon vin in descho, guarda che tu no t’ invrie; Che se invria matamente, in tre maynere offende; El noxe al corpo...
3. Part 3To offer the cup to others only when they want it. (The rules as to drinking seem throughout to contemplate that two or more guests are using one cup or vessel.)
4. Part 4‘I will divide this work into 20 parts: And each part Shall present certain distinct grades, As the foregoing reading shows, The 1st will relate how a girl Should conduct hersel...
5. Part 5‘The whole performance is divided into four books. In the 1st the new-born boy is diligently conducted up to the perfect age of man; showing by what nurture and according to wha...
6. Part 6You must not smell at the wine-cup or the platter of any one, not even at your own; nor hand the wine which you have tasted to another, unless your very intimate friend; still l...
7. Part 7in which he refutes the false and defines the true bases of ‘nobility’ (_gentilezza_), will perceive that the illustrious pupil had been to a great extent anticipated by the tea...