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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XIV , n° 2, Dicembre 1996 ( Contributi ) pag. 64-105
THE COURT AMBIENCE OF BALDASSAR CASTIGLIONE
AND THE INITIATIVE OF THE "AULIC"
JOSEPH MARINO
Hood College,
Frederick, Maryland
In a series of programmatic studies Giancarlo Mazzacurati has
continued to refine the distinctions he identified between two differing tendencies that were formative of cultural developments of the later Italian Renaissance: a municipalism associated with the late-communal Tuscan axis and an aulicism associated with the centro-Paduan axis of the northern and central courts1. Mazzacurati's work is suggestive for helping us appreciate the dynamic character of the humanist program and the continual adjustments being made as regards the complex cultural geography of Italy in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, for in attending to the differing modes of cultural organization of the municipal and the aulic we may investigate with greater specificity the successive modifications of social structure, pedagogical scheme, and models of intellectual practice and comportment that obtain in the varying emergent cultural centers in this pivotal moment of the Renaissance in Italy. It is the purpose of this study to develop the implications of Mazzacurati's argument and also to expand upon his distinction between a municipal and an aulic discourse through an investigation of Il Libro del Cortegiano of Baldassar Castiglione. [...]
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