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There were three best-selling books in the High Renaissance that stayed on the charts for decades.  Today, most literate people have heard of Machiavelli’s The Prince, not quite as many have heard of Thomas Moore’s Utopia and fewer still know of Baldassare Castiglione’s The Courtier (Il Cortegiano). The first two have spawned far more academic […]

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