Onorati gentiluomini e duellanti impavidi. La cultura nobiliare e gli ideali cavallereschi nella trattatistica sul duello del secondo Cinquecento

• Main Author: Fiazza, Giovanni (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: Italian
• Published: Milano Milano University Press 2023
• Series: Consonanze 31
• Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Duel; Honour; Treatises on Duelling; Sixteenth Century; Chivalry; Noble Culture; Muzio; Susio
• Online Access: DOAB: description of the publication

From the middle of the 16th century, the practice of duelling, by then closely linked to the principle of honour and the defence of its integrity, became the subject of a large number of treatises addressed to a large audience of gentlemen, eager to know the most honourable ways to come to terms wit...