The ciuile conuersation of M. Stephen Guazzo
By: written first in Italian, diuided into foure bookes ; the first three translated out of French by G. Pettie ...
Contributors: Pettie, George, 1548-1589.; Yong, Bartholomew, 1560-1621?; East, Thomas, 1540?-1608?, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Thomas East
Published: 1586
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Etiquette -- Early works to 1800.; Conversation -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 12423
Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁸ A-Y⁸ 2A-2F⁸ 2G⁶. [superscript pi]A1 blank except signature mark.
Table of contents: title: In the first is contained in generall the fruits that may be reaped by conuersation, and teaching hovv to knovv good companie from ill; title: In the second, the manner of conuersation, meete for all persons, which shall come in anie companie, out of their ovvne houses & then of the perticular points vvhich ought to be obserued in companie betweene young men & olde, gentlemen and yeomen, princes and priuate persons, learned and vnlearned, citizens and strangers, religious and secular, men & women; title: In the third is perticularlie set forth the orders to be obserued in conuersation within doores, betweene the husband and the wife, the father and the sonne, brother and brother, the master and the seruant; title: In the fourth is set downe the forme of ciuile conuersation by the example of a banquet, made in cassale, between the lords and four ladies / and now translated out of Italian into English by Barth. Young ...