The Book of the Courtier (Norton Critical Editions)
Contributors: Daniel Javitch (Editor)
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780393976069
First sentence: I HAVE spent a long time wondering, my dear Alfonso, which of two things was the more difficult for me: either to refuse what you have asked me so often and so insistently, or to do it.