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Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556.
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Etiquette, Medieval -- Early works to 1800.
Conversation -- Early works to 1800.
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Galateo, or, The rul...
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Galateo, or, The rules of polite behavior / Giovanni Della Casa ; edited and translated by M. F. Rusnak.
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Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Subjects
Etiquette, Medieval -- Early works to 1800.
Conversation -- Early works to 1800.
ISBN:
9780226010977 (cloth : alk. paper) :
022601097X (cloth : alk. paper)
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xxxiii, 103 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Contents:
Long-winded opening: good manners, compared with more weighty virtues, and why they are no less useful to a gentleman -- Annoying behavior defined simply in terms of sensual suffering -- Disgusting things offend the senses and even the imagination and desire -- Galateo and Count Ricciardo: an anecdote on the importance of politeness -- Returning to the subject of offensive and gauche habits -- Ways we enjoy one another, and irk one another, especially in conversation -- Dressing for success -- Petulant and pompous and self-serving people -- How to spoil a conversation -- On those prim and ladylike men -- The don'ts of conversation -- Keep your dreams to yourself -- Liars and braggarts and the falsely modest -- Ceremonies, especially empty compliments, discussed -- Three kinds of compliments: why not to extend them -- Compliments done for vanity and out of duty, and a warning about adulation -- Why imported Spanish affectation is particularly vapid -- Other spoken sources of annoyance: slander, contradiction, reprimanding, etc. -- The risks of mockery and ridicule and vituperative wit -- Comic talent: those who are funny and those who try to be -- Some practical tips on storytelling -- Eloquence and the choice of language -- More on the fine art of conversation -- The verbose, the interrupters, the taciturn -- Anecdote of the sculptor, the rule, and a lady named reason -- The aesthetics of human language and human actions -- Why hurting my senses hurts my mind -- Grace, decorum, and restraint, and a special word on fashion sense -- Bad table manners and getting knee-walking drunk -- The myriad ways to be rude, and an abrupt conclusion..
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