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Book Galateo

Download or read book Galateo written by Giovanni Della Casa and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtesy book, specifically intended for children. First appears in Italian in 1558.

Book Modern Manners

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dorothea Johnson
  • Publisher : Potter Style
  • Release : 2013-10-29
  • ISBN : 0770434088
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Modern Manners written by Dorothea Johnson and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the world-renowned etiquette expert and her granddaughter, Liv Tyler, an elegant guide to 21st-century manners and etiquette for professionals who want to be confident and successful in the business and social arenas. Developing good etiquette and manners is an important investment in your future. They allow you to feel at ease in any situation--and give you the polish and confidence to become a leader. Etiquette expert Dorothea Johnson's essential dos and don'ts address both 21st-century and classic questions, including: * acing job interviews * giving confident handshakes * making conversation * proper business attire and meeting protocol * e-mail etiquette, including what to post--or not--on social media * how to deal with rude cell phone users * conducting a meeting at a restaurant * attending business or social events * table manners With style, wit, and delightful commentary throughout from her granddaughter, Liv Tyler, on everything from being a good guest to finding a balance with technology, Modern Manners is the must-have guide to ensure your success.

Book Galateo  of Manners and Behaviours in Familiar Conversation

Download or read book Galateo of Manners and Behaviours in Familiar Conversation written by Giovanni Della Casa and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Galateo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giovanni Della Casa
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2014-10-08
  • ISBN : 022621219X
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Galateo written by Giovanni Della Casa and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treatise on polite behavior written by a sixteenth century Italian diplomat and papal nuncio.

Book The Book of the Courtier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Baldassarre Castiglione
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Book of the Courtier written by Baldassarre Castiglione and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Courtesy to Civility

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Bryson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780198217657
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book From Courtesy to Civility written by Anna Bryson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What counted as good and bad manners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Anna Bryson explores what is often entertaining evidence for Tudor and Stuart ideas of bodily decency and decorum, table manners and polite conversation, and also shows the crucial importance of the values of "courtesy" and "civility" in an aristocratic society.

Book The Absence of Grace

Download or read book The Absence of Grace written by Harry Berger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Absence of Grace is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two sixteenth-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo (1558). The interpretive method is a form of close reading the author describes as reconstructed old New Criticism, that is, close reading conditioned by an interest in and analysis of the historical changes reflected in the text. The book focuses on the way the Courtier and Galateo cope with and represent the interaction between changes of elite culture and the changing construction of masculine identity in early modern Europe. More specifically, it connects questions of male fantasy and masculine identity to questions about the authority and reliability of narrators, and shows how these questions surface in narratorial attitudes toward socioeconomic rank or class, political power, and gender. The book is in three parts. Part One examines a distinction and correlation the Courtier establishes between two key terms, (1) sprezzatura, defined as a behavioral skill intended to simulate the attributes of (2) grazia, understood as the grace and privileges of noble birth. Because sprezzatura is negatively conceptualized as the absence of grace it generates anxiety and suspicion in performers and observers alike. In order to suggest how the binary opposition between these terms affected the discourse of manners, the author singles out the titular episode of Galateo, an anecdote about table manners, which he reads closely and then sets in its historical perspective. Part Two takes up the question of sprezzatura in the gender debate that develops in Book 3 of the Courtier, and Part Three explores in detail the characterization of the two narrators in the Courtier and Galateo, who are represented as unreliable and an object of parody or critique.

Book The Devil s Slave

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antonio Mira de Amescua
  • Publisher : MRTS
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Slave written by Antonio Mira de Amescua and published by MRTS. This book was released on 1989 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally in Spanish.

Book Rudeness and Civility

Download or read book Rudeness and Civility written by John F. Kasson and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette as a middle-class response to the new urban and industrial economy and to the excesses of democratic society.

Book The Ladies  Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or  Miss Leslie s Behaviour Book

Download or read book The Ladies Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or Miss Leslie s Behaviour Book written by Eliza Leslie and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an insight into expected etiquette regarding topics such as manners, clothing, conversation, managing servants, and traveling for women. Written during the reign of Queen Victoria, this work will transport the readers back to get a glimpse of the customs prevalent during the mid-1800s.

Book The Crisis of Courtesy

Download or read book The Crisis of Courtesy written by Jacques Carré and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Crisis of Courtesy" explores the metamorphosis of British courtesy-literature from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It shows how the preoccupation with conduct provided the subject-matter of such diverse literary forms as poetry, the essay and the novel.

Book Sorry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Hitchings
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2013-11-05
  • ISBN : 0374710597
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Sorry written by Henry Hitchings and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous and charming investigation into what it really means to have proper manners Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners—holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table—and we certainly know bad manners when we see them. But where has this patchwork of beliefs and behaviors come from? How did manners develop? How do they change? And why do they matter so much? In examining English manners, Henry Hitchings delves into the English character and investigates what it means to be English. Sorry! presents an amusing, illuminating, and quirky audit of British manners. From basic table manners to appropriate sexual conduct, via hospitality, chivalry, faux pas, and online etiquette, Hitchings traces the history of England's customs and courtesies. Putting some of the most astute observers of humanity—including Jane Austen and Samuel Pepys—under the microscope, he uses their lives and writings to pry open the often downright peculiar secrets of the English character. Hitchings's blend of history, anthropology, and personal journey helps us understand the bizarre and contested cultural baggage that goes along with our understanding of what it means to have good manners.

Book Etiquette for Beginners

Download or read book Etiquette for Beginners written by Laetitia Dupont and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a woman and would you like to learn how to become elegant and behave on every occasion? If yes, this is the right book for you! There's a lot to learn about being a lady, and not all of it is about fashion. Every lady needs to learn how to express herself more personally through personal interaction and good manners. ETIQUETTE FOR BEGINNER's book will give you an idea about the importance of etiquette in a lady, and it will show you the main qualities of a lady who has etiquette. You will learn how to behave in a classy manner on every occasion. Being a lady is not easy, but it is worth it. Whether you're at work, out with new friends, or mingling at a party, etiquette greases the wheels of social interaction. Knowing what to say and what not to say sets others at ease, and it also minimizes your anxiety when you're in unfamiliar or otherwise-stressful situations. Instead of panicking because you have to go on a business trip with your boss or meet your significant other's parents, etiquette can make you confident about how you'll carry yourself. It serves as a solid foundation that allows you to shine. The present manual is very easy to follow and contains many useful tips and advice. It includes: - Understanding etiquette - Elegance - Dressing etiquette - Grooming etiquette - Dining etiquette - Workplace etiquette ...And much more! So, what are you waiting for? Start your beautiful journey now!

Book Debrett s Handbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Wyse
  • Publisher : eBook Partnership
  • Release : 2016-04-19
  • ISBN : 0992934869
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Debrett s Handbook written by Elizabeth Wyse and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quintessentially British reference tool, and an entertaining guide to modern manners, Debrett's Handbook contains informed insights on a range of formal occasions, hosting and entertaining, dress codes, written forms of address, social correspondence and correct form. This fantastically thorough compendium of advice is now available in ebook form, making it easier to use than ever before. With informed insights on a range of occasions including weddings and formal events, the Handbook is a trustworthy companion to social life and rites of passage. It also addresses many modern dilemmas such as social graces, mobile manners and dining etiquette, and offers advice on civilised hosting and entertaining.

Book Technocreep

Download or read book Technocreep written by Thomas P. Keenan and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies," writes cyber expert Keenan, "and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us - on a one way trip to the total surrender of privacy and the commoditization of intimacy." Here is the definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door. Take, for example, "Girls Around Me": a Russian-made iPhone App that allowed anyone to scan the immediate vicinity for girls and women who checked in on Foursquare and had poorly secured Facebook profiles. It combined this information in a way never intended by the original poster. Going to a Disney theme park? Your creepy new "MagicBand" will alert Minnie Mouse that you're on the way and she'll know your kid's name when you approach her. Thinking about sending your DNA off to Ancestry.com for some "genetic genealogy"? Perhaps you should think again: your genetic information could be used against you. "This masterful weaving of the negatives and positives of technology makes for a book that is realistic about technology's perils yet optimistic about it's great potential."--Foreword Reviews

Book Lying in Early Modern English Culture

Download or read book Lying in Early Modern English Culture written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot.