Note 147 — Chapter I · THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
George Herbert Ely translation
His ardent oration has been reported in the Courtier of Castiglione, which became the breviary of the new society; we know that Castiglione faithfully reproduced his words, and, for greater accuracy, first submitted the manuscript to Bembo. [It may be as well to state that the passage quoted here is not a continuous quotation, but an admirable condensation of several pages of Castiglione. See pp. 343-363 of Hoby’s translation in Mr. Henley’s “Tudor Translations.”]