Giovanni della Casa

Life

Born: 28 July 1503

Died: 14 November 1556

Biography

Giovanni della Casa was a Florentine poet, writer on etiquette and society, diplomat, and inquisitor. He is celebrated for his famous treatise on polite behavior, Il Galateo overo de’ costumi (1558). From the time of its publication, this courtesy book has enjoyed enormous success and influence. In the eighteenth century, influential critic Giuseppe Baretti wrote in The Italian Library (1757), "The little treatise is looked upon by many Italians as the most elegant thing, as to stile, that we have in our language."

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Settings of text by Giovanni della Casa

• Affliger chi per voi (Luca Marenzio)
• Come fuggir per selva (Luca Marenzio)
• Cura, che di timor ti nutri e cresci (Giaches de Wert)
• O sonno (Cipriano de Rore)
• O Sonno, o della queta (Marco da Gagliano)
• O Sonno, o della queta, humida, ombrosa (Giaches de Wert)
• O sonno, ò de la queta, humida, ombrosa (Giovanni Battista Mosto)
• Quella che lieta (Luca Marenzio)
• S'io vissi cieco (Luca Marenzio)
• Stolto cor mio (Gioseffo Guami)
• Stolto mio core (Philippe de Monte)

Publications

Rime et prose (Venice: Bevilacqua, 1558), includes 'Il Galateo'

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