Revising Manners: Giovanni Della Casa’s 'Galateo' and Antoine de Courtin’s 'Nouveau traité de la civilité'

This article undertakes a cross-cultural comparison of Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo Ovvero Trattato de’ Costumi e Modi che si debbono tenere o schifare nella comune conversatione (1558) and its seventeenth-century French heir, Antoine de Courtin’s Nouveau traité de la civilité qui se pratiquent en France parmi les honnêtes gens (1671) in light of the Renaissance concept of imitation. Courtin’s text functions in some ways as a “translation” of Della Casa’s Galateo but it is less a faithful reproduction than an adaptation with distinct differences in approach and authorial perspective. A close reading of each text reveals how Galateo both invites and resists imitation by Courtin and how the courtesy book form shapes this imitation

Maryann Tebben

Selected excerpts from the Oral History Project interview. The full transcript may be restricted. To request access please contact the Simon’s Rock College Archives. I remember when I told Gabriel that I wanted to use video and audio and he sort of blanched at that and said ‘Well, I don’t know if we can accommodate that but we’ll do our best.’ It was definitely interesting to see that at Simon’s Rock it was more about the chalkboard and the chalk and the conversations than about the-- I call it the technology but at the time, I’m not kidding, it was a VHS tape and a CD, I had to bring my own CD player, that’s how little technology we were using. That was an interesting impression! I wanted to connect with the local area, there are a lot of farmers, there are a lot of foodies, there are a lot of food activists in the area, so to make Simon’s Rock have a connection with those people, those groups, seemed like a good idea. That’s what I’ve been working on. Conferences, panel discussions, connections with community. I remember when the library hours were going to change and the students were very upset and filed a protest. [Dean] Anne [O’Dwyer] was travelling and she came back from wherever she was to talk to students to reassure them that we would put back the Library hours that had been taken away, those are the sorts of things I like to remember. This is what’s important to us: library hours.https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/sr-oral_hist/1022/thumbnail.jp

Teaching Food Studies in Early College: Experiments in Collaboration

This article outlines the process of designing and teaching a collaborative course on sustainable food and agriculture on multiple campuses at once, including two early college institutions. The authors offer insights on the specific elements of the course they designed as well as methods for designing the course, what worked in practice, and what they would change. This article will be useful for faculty who would like to work with other early college colleagues to plan a collaborative course in general or a specific course on sustainable food and farms

Revising Manners: Giovanni Della Casa’s «Galateo» and Antoine de Courtin’s «Nouveau traité de la civilité»

This article undertakes a cross-cultural comparison of Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo Ovvero Trattato de’ Costumi e Modi che si debbono tenere o schifare nella comune conversatione (1558) and its seventeenth-century French heir, Antoine de Courtin’s Nouveau traité de la civilité qui se pratiquent en France parmi les honnêtes gens (1671) in light of the Renaissance concept of imitation. Courtin’s text functions in some ways as a “translation” of Della Casa’s Galateo but it is less a faithful reproduction than an adaptation with distinct differences in approach and authorial perspective. A close reading of each text reveals how Galateo both invites and resists imitation by Courtin and how the courtesy book form shapes this imitation