Reduced from Braun’s photograph (no. 11.505) of the portrait in the Louvre, painted in 1516 by Raphael (1483-1520). The original belonged to Charles I of England, after whose death it was bought by a Dutch collector and copied by Rubens. Later it became the property of Cardinal Mazarin, from whose heirs it was acquired for Louis XIV of France.
The medallion on the title-page is from a photograph, specially made by Mansell, of a cast, kindly furnished by T. Whitcombe Greene, Esq., of an anonymous medal in his collection at Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire. See the late Alfred Armand’s Les Médailleurs Italiens, ii, 100, no. 10.
THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER
BY COUNT BALDESAR
CASTIGLIONE
(1528)
TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN AND ANNOTATED
BY LEONARD ECKSTEIN OPDYCKE
WITH SEVENTY-ONE PORTRAITS AND FIFTEEN AUTOGRAPHS