...be seen there. Moreover, he gathered together at a vast cost a large number of the best and rarest books in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, all of which he adorned with gold and silver, esteeming them the chiefest treasure of his spacious palace." When Cesare Borgia entered Urbino...

...be seen there. Moreover, he gathered together at a vast cost a large number of the best and rarest books in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, all of which he adorned with gold and silver, esteeming them the chiefest treasure of his spacious palace." When Cesare Borgia entered Urbino...

...be seen there. Moreover, he gathered together at a vast cost a large number of the best and rarest books in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, all of which he adorned with gold and silver, esteeming them the chiefest treasure of his spacious palace.' When Cesare Borgia entered Urbino...

...be seen there. Moreover, he gathered together at a vast cost a large number of the best and rarest books in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, all of which he adorned with gold and silver, esteeming them the chiefest treasure of his spacious palace.' When Cesare Borgia entered Urbino...

...palace, — silver vases, hangings of richest cloth-of-gold, antique statues, pictures most choice, and a goodly number of most excellent and rare books in Greek, Latin and Hebrew. This duke, dying gloriously as he had lived, was succeeded by his only son, Guidobaldo, infirm of body...

...choice, and musical instruments of every sort, nor would he admit anything there that was not very rare and excellent. Then at very great cost he collected...which he adorned with gold and with silver, esteeming them to be the chiefest excellence of his great palace.' Federigo's son and successor, Guidobaldo,...

...choice, and musical instruments of every sort, nor would he admit anything there that was not very rare and excellent. Then at very great cost he collected...most excellent and rare books in Greek, Latin and 1 Woodward : Education during the Renaissance, p. 75. 2 Woodward : Vittorino, pp. 176-177. Hebrew,...

...every sort." admitting nothing that was not "very rare and excellent." and who "at very great cost. had collected a goodly number of most excellent and rare books in Greek. Latin. and Hebrew.'" 1 What van Wassenhoves painting shows us is that a new image of the legitimacy of public rule has now...

...have anything that was not most rare and excellent. Then, at great expense, he collected many very excellent and rare books in Greek, Latin and Hebrew, all of which he adorned with gold and silver, deeming these to be the supreme excellence of his great palace" (Courtier, 13-14). 47 After...

...Castiglione summed up in The Book of the Courtier, 'he collected a large number of the finest and rarest books, in Greek, Latin and Hebrew, all of which he adorned with gold and silver, believing that they were the crowning glory of his great palace.' He had built up what was...