Reading The Book of the Courtier | Alexandria
Read The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione. Revealing how a 16th-century Italian courtier's guide became a masterclass in authenticity, The Book of the Courtier overturns our notion that "being natural" is natural at all. Through sprezzatura - the paradoxical art of studied nonchalance - Castiglione shows grace requires careful cultivation masked as effortlessness.