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Updated: May 7, 2025
To the first half of the sixteenth century belongs the manual of politeness which Giovanni della Casa, a Florentine by birth, published under the title 'Il Galateo. Not only cleanliness in the strict sense of the word, but the dropping of all the habits which we consider unbecoming, is here prescribed with the same unfailing tact with which the moralist discerns the highest ethical truths.
In the literature of other countries the same lessons are taught, though less systematically, by the indirect influence of repulsive descriptions. In other respects also, the 'Galateo' is a graceful and in- telligent guide to good manners a school of tact and delicacy.
It is interesting to compare the 'Cortegiano' with Della Casa's 'Galateo, published in 1558. The 'Galateo' professes to be a guide for gentlemen in social intercourse, and the minute rules laid down would satisfy the most exacting purist of the present century. In manners and their ethical analysis we have certainly gained nothing during the last three centuries.
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