The Book of the Courtier

by conte Baldassarre Castiglione

Note [427] page 237. Ars Amandi, i, 597-602.

Note [428] page 237. Ars Amandi, i, 569-72.

NOTES TO THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE COURTIER

Note [429] page 243. Gaspar Pallavicino died in 1511, at the age of twenty-five.

Note [430] page 243. Cesare Gonzaga died in 1512, at about the age of thirty-seven. See note 43.

Note [431] page 244. Federico Fregoso was named Archbishop of Salerno in 1507, very soon after the date of the Courtier dialogues; see note [41].

Ludovico da Canossa became Bishop of Bayeux in 1520; see note [44].

Ottaviano Fregoso became Doge of Genoa in 1513; see note [11].

Bibbiena was made cardinal, and Bembo was appointed papal secretary, in 1513; see notes 10 and 42.

Giuliano de’ Medici was created Duke of Nemours in 1515. As he died in 1516, Castiglione’s use of the present tense (‘that greatness where now he is’) is inconsistent with the mention of Canossa as Bishop of Bayeux. See note 9.