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167:. He resigned his post on 8 June 1503, retiring to a villa he had built on the ruins of an old castle in San Gimignano. He continued to receive a steady stream of visitors. He lived the rest of his life there and never visited Rome again. He nurtured hopes of being named a cardinal, but never was. He died in 1510, before 15 November. His heir was his son Alessandro, born out of wedlock but legitimized by Cardinal
280:. He ignores contemporary Florentines and assesses all in terms of their adherence to Ciceronian norms. The theories expounded are those of his letter to Poliziano. Although it was used and cited repeatedly in manuscript,
220:. He sent Poliziano a collection of Latin letters with the intent to publish and asked the elder humanist his opinion of their quality. Poliziano advised against publication, since the letter's so slavishly imitated
291:, "an attempt to elimintate the dissidence between theological wisdom and profane eloquence". The apotheosis of the Ciceronianism expressed in the letter to Poliziano, it was dedicated to
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Cortesi as a papal scribe as late as 23 May 1497. In the 1490s, the Cortsi house was frequented by poets and men of letters. Among those that visited the home were
370:, he describes the manners and lifestyle appropriate to a cardinal with many anecdotes. He even gives architectural advice concerning cardinalatial palaces. In the third,
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Schirg, Bernhard (2017). "Cortese's Ideal
Cardinal? Praising Art, Spendour and Magnificence in Bernardino de Carvajal's Roman Residence".
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83:(1460–1490), oversaw his education. With Alessandro, he visited many famous Roman men of learning in his youth, including
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Imitation in the Italian Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo
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Cortesi was born in Rome in the first half of 1465 to
Antonio Cortesi and Tita Aldobrandini. His father was a papal
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Renaissance Cardinal's Ideal Palace: A Chapter from Cortesi's
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Jackson, Philippa (2011). "Investing in Curial
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in style. Cortesi responded with a long, polemical letter in defence of his style.
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of Siena. It is dedicated to Julius II and has three prefaces by Cortesi, by
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Historietta amorosa fra Leonora de' Bardi e Ippolito Buondelmonti
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Historia vera Hippolyti de Bondelmontibus et Deianirae de Bardis
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