REPRODUCED BY EDWARD BIERSTADT

LONDON

DUCKWORTH & CO.

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

1902

Copyright 1901, by

Leonard Eckstein Opdycke

The Book of the Courtier was written, partly at Urbino and partly at Rome, between the years 1508 and 1516, and was first printed at the Aldine Press, Venice, in the month of April, 1528.