Project Gutenberg 2025-03-26 Public domain in the USA. 174 Rossetti, William Michael 1829 1919 Rossetti, W. M. (William Michael) Rosetti, William Michael Bonvesin, da la Riva Bonvesin, da Riva Bonvicinus, de Ripa Bonvicinus, de Rippa Buonvicino, da Riva Da la Riva, Bonvesin Ripa, Bonvicinus de Rippa, Bonvicinus de Riva, Bonvesin da la Riva, Buonvicino da Riva, Bonvicino da Italian courtesy-books : $b Fra Bonvicino da Riva's fifty courtesies for the table (Italian and English) with other translations and elucidations Mairi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Italian courtesy-books: Fra Bonvicino da Riva's fifty courtesies for the…" is a historical anthology compiled in the mid-19th century by William Michael Rossetti. The book examines the tradition of courtesy literature in Italy, particularly from the medieval period, and presents translated specimens of these early works. Its central concern is the rules and ideals surrounding polite behavior, especially at the table, and how such social codes evolved and were recorded in Italian literary culture. The opening of the book provides introductory remarks by Rossetti, laying out both his motivation for assembling this volume and the cultural context for Italian courtesy-books. He references the advanced stage of Italian civilization during the Middle Ages and introduces key early authors, starting with Brunetto Latini, whose poem "Tesoretto" includes a discourse on the virtue of courtesy, especially in speech and conduct. Rossetti then turns to Fra Bonvicino da Riva and his poem "The Fifty Courtesies for the Table," a detailed guide to manners at mealtime, which he presents in both the original Italian and in English translation. This beginning also includes a summary and classification of Bonvicino’s rules, showing their continuing relevance and offering comparisons with later texts. The reader is oriented to expect both broad cultural analysis and close readings of original etiquette texts, establishing the book's dual value as a scholarly resource and a window onto historical social practices. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/italiancourtesyb00rossuoft/page/n5/mode/2up 20240616140226rossetti 1869 GB Reading ease score: 63.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Courtesy books -- Early works to 1800 BJ Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages 261943 2025-07-30T04:55:34.027372 text/html 235507 2025-03-26T19:20:05 text/html 332319 2025-07-30T04:55:39.508335 application/epub+zip 333301 2025-07-30T04:55:35.326360 application/epub+zip 173988 2025-07-30T04:55:34.620353 application/epub+zip 474424 2025-07-30T04:55:42.389299 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 469339 2025-07-30T04:55:38.993315 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 189519 2025-07-30T04:55:33.188383 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 169509 2025-03-26T19:20:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17312 2025-07-30T04:55:42.537379 application/rdf+xml 11098 2025-07-30T04:55:34.897342 image/jpeg 1951 2025-07-30T04:55:34.758354 image/jpeg 328532 2025-07-30T04:55:34.048365 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia