Baldassare Castiglione
Baldassare Castiglione (; ), abdi Casatico, adalah seorang abdi dalem, diplomat prajurit dan penulis Renaisans tersohor asal Italia. Ia dikenal karena membuat Il Cortegiano atau Buku Abdi.

Catatan

Referensi 
 Burke, Peter. The Fortunes of the Courtier: The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano. Penn State University Press, 1995.
 Osborne, June. Urbino: the Story of a Renaissance City. London: Frances Lincoln, 2003.
 Berger, Harry. The Absence of Grace: Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
 Raffini, Christine. Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione: Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Political Approaches in Renaissance Platonism (Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Texts, vol. 21). Peter Lang Publishing, 1998. .
 Roeder, Ralph. The man of the renaissance: four lawgivers: Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Aretino. New York: Meridian Books. 1933.

Pranala luar 

 Castiglione: Pathways Through Italian Literature: Internet Culturale: Italian Writers. an Italian website with extensive contextual and biographical background on Castiglione's life and work, translated into English. 
 Full text of The Book of the Courtier, translated by Leonard Eckstein Opdyke.
 MS 239/25 Ad sacratissimum Britanniae regem Henricum at OPenn

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