The stamp imprinted on the cover of this volume was engraved from an enlarged outline drawing made by Mr. Kenyon Cox from a photograph of one of the many examples of Castiglione’s seal preserved in the Royal State Archives at Mantua.
LIST OF EDITIONS OF THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER
COMPILED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:
Copy in the Library of the Spanish Academy at Madrid, ace
Copy in the Alessandrina Library at Rome, ala
Copy in the Ambrosiana Library at Milan, amb
Copy in the Angelica Library at Rome, ang
Copy in the National Library at Madrid, bnm
Copy in the National Library at Paris, bnp
Brunet’s Manuel du Libraire (Paris: 1860-65), bnt
Copy in the Braidense Library at Milan, bra
Copy in the British Museum, brm
Brunet’s Manuel du Libraire, Supplément (Paris: 1878), bts
Copy in the Casanatense Library at Rome, cas
Copy in the Cavriani Library at Mantua, cav
Copy in the Chigiana Library at Rome, chi
Copy in the Corsiniana Library at Rome, cor
MS. bibliographical notes by the late Count D’Arco, at Mantua, d’a
Copy examined by the translator in the National Library at Paris, exd
List of editions appended to Fabié’s (1873) edition of Boscan’s fab Spanish translation,
Copy in the University Library at Jena, jen
List of editions appended to Aristide Joly’s De Balthassaris jol Castillionis opere cui titulus “Il Libro del Cortegiano,” etc. (Caen: 1856),
List of editions appended to Count Mazzuchelli’s Life of maz Castiglione (Rome: 1879),
Copy in the New York Public Library, nyp
Card Catalogue of the antiquarian bookseller Olschki, at Florence, ols
Copy owned by the translator, opd
Giambattista Passano’s I Novellieri Italiani (Turin: 1878), pas
Article by Reinhardstöttner in Jahrb. f. Münchner Gesch. (1888, rei pp. 494-9),
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