Galateo, or, The rules of polite behavior
By: Giovanni Della Casa ; edited and translated by M. F. Rusnak
Contributors: Rusnak, M. F., editor, translator
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780226010977
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Conversation; Early works to 1800; Medieval Etiquette
Other titles: Rules of polite behavior
Description: A treatise on polite behavior written by a sixteenth century Italian diplomat and papal nuncio.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-103).
Table of contents: title: Long-winded opening: good manners, compared with more weighty virtues, and why they are no less useful to a gentleman --; title: Annoying behavior defined simply in terms of sensual suffering --; title: Disgusting things offend the senses, and even the imagination and desire --; title: Galateo and Count Ricciardo: an anecdote on the importance of politeness --; title: Returning to the subject of offensive and gauche habits --; title: Ways we enjoy one another, and irk one another, especially in conversation --; title: Dressing for success --; title: Petulant and pompous and self-serving people --; title: How to spoil a conversation --; title: On those prim and ladylike men --; title: The don'ts of conversation --; title: Keep your dreams to yourself --; title: Liars and braggarts and the falsely modest --; title: Ceremonies, especially empty compliments, discussed --; title: Three kinds of compliments: why not to extend them --; title: Compliments done for vanity and out of duty, and a warning about adulation --; title: Why imported Spanish affectation is particularly vapid --; title: Other spoken sources of annoyance: slander, contradiction, reprimanding, etc. --; title: The risks of mockery and ridicule and vituperative wit --; title: Comic talent: those who are funny and those who try to be --; title: Some practical tips on storytelling --; title: Eloquence and the choice of language --; title: More on the fine art of conversation --; title: The verbose, the interrupters, the taciturn --; title: Anecdote of the sculptor, the rule, and a lady named reason --; title: The aesthetics of human language and human actions --; title: Why hurting my senses hurts my mind --; title: Grace, decorum, and restraint, and a special word on fashion sense --; title: Bad table manners and getting knee-walking drunk --; title: The myriad ways to be rude, and an abrupt conclusion.