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A11048	The courtiers academie comprehending seuen seuerall dayes discourses: wherein be discussed, seuen noble and important arguments, worthy by all gentlemen to be perused. 1 Of beautie. 2 Of humane loue. 3 Of honour. 4 Of combate and single fight. 5 Of nobilitie. 6 Of riches. 7 Of precedence of letters or armes originally written in Italian by Count Haniball Romei, a gentleman of Ferrara, and translated into English by I.K.; Discorsi. English	Romei, Annibale, conte, 16th cent.; Keper, John, b. 1546 or 7, attributed name.; I. K.	1598 (1598)	STC 21311; ESTC S116155	207,844	304

assistance at all to humane life as that which by the Lawgiuers was inuented to proue equalitie in bargaines contracts for a mason could make no exchange with a shoomaker seeing the building of a house is of farre greater value then a paire of shooes if mony were not which ballanceth the contract And therefore mony by the Graecians was called Numisma as it were by the lawes ordained for Nomos signisieth law and the Latines for the selfesame cause called it Nummus and there is no doubt but mony commeth to be esteemed through the opinion only of men who as hitherto they haue esteemed thereof if for a little while they should but beginne to holde the same as indeed it is but base and vile we should finde it no question but an vnprositable waight and burden That inuention of mony saide Signior Patritio serueth for no other vse but for permutation of thinges it appeareth by another reason for hauing respect only to domesticall societie within the limites of an house where permutation is not requisit it is altogether vnprofitable And how is permutation vnnecessarie or at leastwife vnprofitable in a house replied Signior Hercules Varano Because betweene husband and wife saide Patritio betwixt father and children seruants and maisters and brothers while they remaine together in one familte that permutation is not requisite wherevnto mony concurreth for equalitie of bargaine and contract and therefore mony within the limites of an house is altogether vnprofitable but only serueth abroad in ciuill company sometimes for contract and exchange Me thinkes said Signior Scipion Gilioli that general rule should haue an exception seeing in the house betwixt master and seruant there is permutation and mony taketh place the seruitor offering his labor and seruice to his master and the master due hire to such a seruant in exchange obserue sayd Patritio that by a seruant I intend not these which go about euery day seruing sometime this man otherwhiles that for hire For these sorte of people be rather similitudes then true seruantes as they that acknowledge not their master for their head neither feare by him to be punished for the insolencies they dayly commit in the house wherfore they are altogether vnworthy to be placed in the number of those which make a domesticall societie being for the most part vagabonds and cooseners directing their actions rather to some other end than to serue their maisters But I meane that seruant the vse of whom not onely but euen of his goods and substance is in the maisters power which by vs at this day is called a Slaue for such an one is a true seruitor and one of the principall instruments wherewith a master gouernes his house This man partely for feare of his maister as also through hope of liberty the reward of good seruice serueth his master most saithfully and betweene this seruant and his maister occurreth no permutation wherein mony is requisite Nowe I conceiue saide Gilioli that your rulehath no exception and that money is no riches which passeth betwixt them of one famille although it be necessary for maintenance of the house as Signior Conte hath very wel explaned who in the argument of riches hath giuē so good satisfaction as peraduenture litle remaineth wherof we may doubt The which likewise being by all the rest confirmed the discourse ended and his Highnesse with the thrise excellent Duchesse euen now landed at the village of Cosandoli the Queene rose vp with al the rest of the companie and leauing the Barge they followed the Court which went to a lodging prepared in a most sumptuous pallace not farre distant from the bankes of Poe built sometimes with magnificent charge by the anciēnt Princes of Este Here after cuerie one had taken a little repose in their particular partitions being euen now night all went to the Chamber of the renowned Duchesse where with musick and other pleasing sports they passed the time while supper which ended and the tables taken vp they vsed diuers formes of dancing but being very late al departed to their rest expecting the morning light The morning following his highnesse the excellent Duchesse and all the rest of the Court hauing heard with deuotion ordinary diuine seruice they went roote by foote to the riuers side where each one entred into their barge except the Secretaries Counsellors and other Magistrates who inuited by the Lady Countesse of Sala the Lady Tarquinia and by the most illustrous Lord Don Caesare accommodated themselues in the Buccyntore imagining discourse would fal out vpon some noble subiect and argument and amongst these was Signior Antonio Montecatini of all Philosophers of our age the most principal Signior Gainbattista Landerchi the renowmed of the Lawes Signior Benedetto Racualdi Signior Achilli Fantini Signior Gian Maria Crispo and Signior Cati men not onely in the profession of the lawes most excellent but in all other kindes of excellent and choyce studies learned and iudiciall There were in like maner placed vpon the side of the bark diuers companies of Musitians of which in his Court there be many rate and excellent to the end that playing singging togither to sundrie instruments they might with their melody no lesse delight the sence of hearing then did the dames with their beuty content the eyes sence of seeing But after that with pleasure they had made some reasonable way dinner time beeing at hand by the Queenes order the tables were couered in the hall and on the one side the dames those roabed oueragainst whom sate the Knights and men of order the Queene her self being placed at the end of the table in regal maiestie vnder a canopie Dinner ended which thrughout was accompanied with most melodious musicke there was by prouident officers as on the water the custome is brought forth cardes tables chesse boordes But the Queene with a signe hauing imposed silence spoke after this maner As there be two cōditions of men esteemed worthy of true honor one of those learned and the other of them that make profession of Armes so is there many times disputation to whither of these preeminence is due Considering therefore with my selfe that in this noble assembly of one side here be the flower of the learned of our age and on the other part Knights that in military profession are most excellent taking holde of this good oportunitie I determine that to day for entertainmēt of our passage by way of argument it be discussed which is most worthy of honor the man learned or the Souldier and to the end that in grapling together there grow no confusion I minde it shal be fought out by seuerall champions which may be done they learned choosing out one for their parte that may speake as also the other another And because no controuersie can bee determined without a iudge I will that both partes being hearde they shal stand to the sentence of Madam Countesse of Sala This iudiciall order of the

glasse Nowe this your beautifull Image is transported by meane of the most subtile vitall spirites and imprinted in the inward organe that is the intrinsecate part of the braine which also becommeth like vnto her and from thence receiued into my soule my soule her selfe taketh of you the whole similitude so that we may say that while I see and behold youpresent my soule wholy transfigured into you is no other but the true pourtraiture of your selfe This which by proofe is verified in exterior sense is also as true in sense interiour which is that vertue of the sensitiue facultie called fantasie or imagination which is of force to contemplate and perceiue obiectes although they be absent by those imaginations which remaine imprinted in the interior organ or member whensoeuer therfore our soule imagineth any thing she becommeth like vnto it and further spiritally transformeth her selfe into the thing imagined the same that happeneth to sense falleth out likewise to vnderstanding vnderstanding beeing in a manner altogether like to sense for while the vnderstanding conceiueth and beholdeth anything it is transformed into it and becommeth the same and therefore happie are those who employ the beautifull gift of the minde to contemplate diuine and high things for in that state they become diumitie it selfe By this which I haue expounded vnto you most honorable Lady you may easily comprehend the transformation of the louer into the beloued For it is not a reall but a spiritall transformation For the true louer bearing always the representation of the beloued imprinted in his soule and neuer ayming his thoughtes but towardes his beloued obiect in that state hee commeth to bee transformed into it Whereuppon the diuine Philosopher in his Conuiuio describing the force of Loue saith that Loue with such a strong knotte knitteth louers together that of twoo hee maketh one alone willing to inferre that those who absolutely giue themselues ouer in prey to amorous passions are after such a sorte ententiue on their louing cogitations as it may be affirmed that the soule disioyned from the body liueth in the beloued therefore no meruaile though the bodies of Louers depriued of vitall vigor do consume and languish The which heere Petrarch auerreth of himselfe in these Terzetti of this Sonnet At euery pace I turne my selfe about saying Sometimes amidst my mournings sad and dull A doubt ariseth how these members can Liue so remote from spirite wonderfull But answered Loue remembrest not thou man That this is priuiledg'd to Louers art From other qualities humane apart With this answer the Ladies and Knights remained very well satisfied who expected with great desire to vnderstand this meruailous Metainorphosis And his Mistris Lucretia Calcagnina a Matron adorned with all gentle fashion made her doubt in this sorte It happeneth oftentimes that after a long and colde conuersation bet wixt man and woman in the ende either one with the other or both of them are enflamed with loue reciprocall the which as it is true so bringeth it that into doubt by you spoken that the Louer is presently enamoured as conformable beautie discouereth it selfe vnto him for I would reason thus either that the beautie so often contemplated is to the Louer conformable or not if it be conformable wherefore doth it not in a moment cause loue but if there be no such conformity how can it procure this after long time cleare mee this doubt When Guirino Two manner of waies gratious Lady may your doubt be resolued First I alleadge that in diuers respects how long soeuer their conuersation be it may happen that to the Louer those beauties may be concealed which were more apt to enamour him seeing a fine foote a beautifull leg a faire arme a quicke and liuely gate or other excellencies of the body hitherto couered sudainly or by chance perceiued may kindle amorous flames I will also affirme that not onely the singularities of body but those of the minde also may procure loue and because these do not so sodainely discouer themselues to the eye of the soule which is the reasonable part and that by little and little with long obseruation seeth and beholdeth therefore not so sodainely but after long conuersation they enslame the louer so soone as he knoweth them and after he is enflamed with that which before with his bodily eyes he sawe and was not there with contented then with delight he reioyceth and is glad for as the beauty of the body is of force to conceale from the louer the defects of the minde and to make them appeare lesse waightie so the perfections of the minde after they haue with sweete and honest contentment fastned on the louer are of vigor to transforme the deformities of the bodie beloued and make it to the louer seeme beautifull or at least not brutish This aunswer was taken for sufficient when the Ladie Countesse of Sala I would willingly know sayd she whether a louer at one time may loue two mistresses and this my question ariseth in hauing seene diuers times by experience that they are seldome louers who are content with one loue alone No seruant most honourable Lady answered Guirino can serue two Masters neither can one Louer at the same instant serue more then one inistris which by many reasons is manifest And first because the beauty of two subiects is either equall or else we discouer the difference of more or lesse If they be equall neither of the one nor of the other can he become louing for finally loue being no other but desire and desire of it selte being vndetermined it is necessary that placed between two obiects it should be determined by the better or the worse by the more beautifull or more deformed other wise it would be alwaies immoueable and therefore Iohn Baccone a Philosopher and most learned diuine was wont to say that if the horse were in away equally distant from two barly fieldes of like goodnesse he should be in danger to die for hunger for his appetite would not be moued more to the one then to the other corne Hee therefore who were in the presence of two women equally faire not being able to bend his desire mooued through knowledge of sence more to the one then the other should rest immouable and consequently would loue neither the one nor the other but if there were a difference of more lesse desire inclining it selfe would bee enflamed with the more beautifull and the other should take no place but further if the Louer transformeth himselfe into the beloued as before wee saide not being able to transforme himselfe into two but into one subiect only so shall he bee able to loue but one subiect alone to conclude as that which hath taken place within is an impediment to the other but exterior which would surprise him so that obiect which shall haue taken the possession of the louers heart will forbid any other that attempteth to pearce thereinto the which Petrarch