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Galateo, or, The rules of polite behavior / Giovanni Della Casa ; edited and translated by M.F. Rusnak.
Van Pelt Library BJ1921 .D4413 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Etiquette, Medieval--Early works to 1800.
- Etiquette, Medieval.
- Conversation--Early works to 1800.
- Conversation.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 103 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Other Title:
- Rules of polite behavior
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-103)
- ISBN:
- 9780226010977
- 022601097X
- OCLC:
- 809910964
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