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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556.     Subjects     Etiquette, Medieval -- Early works to 1800.     Conversation -- Early works to 1800.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556.       by title:      Galateo, or, The rul...         MARC Display

Galateo, or, The rules of polite behavior / Giovanni Della Casa ; edited and translated by M. F. Rusnak. by 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) Description:  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.. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 395 De Checked out 05/14/2024 Add Copy to MyList

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