The class is supposed to be reading The Book of the Courtier. What the word for highly intellectual dialogue.
Arduous.
Western Imagination (Characteristics of the Perfect Gentlemen List):
- Soldier (arms) (with grace)
- Military Skills (with grace)
- Virtues (with grace)
- Athletics (with grace)
- Scholar (of letters) (with grace)
- Humanities Knowledge (with grace)
- Avoid Affection (Being Superficial) (with grace)
- Be Nonchalant (Sprezzatura) (with grace)
- Make everything you do seem Extraordinarily Difficult (with grace)
- But Effortless and Natural (with grace)
- Be Involved with Music (with grace)
- Know about it (with grace)
- Sing it (with grace)
- Read it (with grace)
- Play Several Instruments (with grace)
- At appropriate times and places (with grace)
- Sing alone with Viola (preferred style of Renaissance) (with grace)
- No Polyphony
- MONOPHONIC OK
Then we looked at Ecstasy of St. Celia.
“Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.”
― Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
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