Excerpt from Conversation: EssaysI ihe best book that was ever written upon good breeding, said Dr. Johnson to Boswell, the best book, I tell you, [i C ortegiano by Castiglione, grew up at the little f court of Urbino, and you should read it. [i Cortegz'ano was first published by the Aldine Press at Venice, in 1528. Before the close of the century more than one hundred editions saw the light, French, Spanish, English, and German versions followed each other in rapid succession, and the C ortegiano was uni versally acclaimed as the most popular prose work of the Italian Renaissance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.