Castiglione : Baldassare (1478-1529), Italian humanist, known for his dialogue Il Cortegiaflo which influenced Surrey, Wyatt, Philip Sidney, & Edmund Spenser.
... mental history of a nation. Such a period of partial self-revelation we find in the flowering of Italian literature; in the Divine Comedy, the Decameron, the works of Petrarch, Machiavelli, Cellini, Castiglione, mediaeval Italy lives before our eyes for all time; but the rest of Italian prose and poetry is mere literature and nothing more. Again when we have seen the romantic spirit of Spain, its pride ...
... we may observe that the fusion of Christ with Angel or Cherub or Seraph (often interchangeable terms) is not quite exceptional in this tradition. We may remember the account by Brother Matthew of Castiglione Aventino, on the third of October, 1282, relating to the Stigmata of St. Francis. Brother Matthew reports seeing a vision of the Saint in which the latter says about his own experience: "And while ...
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