Castiglione, Baldassare, Conte, 1478-1529, Italian soldier, author, and statesman attached to the court of the duke of Milan and later in the service of the duke of Urbino. His famous Libro del cortegiano (1528, tr. The Courtier, 1561), a treatise on etiquette, social problems, and intellectual accomplishments, is one of the great books of its time. Written at a time when the author served as envoy to Pope Leo X, it gives a vivid and elegant picture of 15th- and 16th-century court life. His book had enormous influence on behavior at courts as far away as England, where it contributed to an ideal of aristocracy embodied in the person and accomplishments of Sir Philip Sidney. Castiglione's portrait was painted by Raphael (c.1515), his tomb designed by Giulio Romano, and his epitaph composed by Bembo.

Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto, 1610?-1670, Italian painter and engraver of the Genoese school, called Il Grechetto. In his later years Castiglione was court painter at Mantua. He is best known for his landscapes and rural scenes with animals, but he also painted portraits and religious works, such as the Nativity (Genoa). His pictures are full of life and movement, their colors rich and glowing. Castiglione's etchings are among the best produced in Italy during his century. His treatment of light and shade is particularly fine. A number of his oil-on-paper sketches are in the Royal Library at Windsor.

Castiglione may refer to:

Places

Towns in Italy, many of which were simply called Castiglione prior to the unification of Italy in the 1800s:

• Castiglion Fibocchi, in the province of Arezzo
• Castiglion Fiorentino, in the province of Arezzo
• Castiglione a Casauria, in the province of Pescara
• Castiglione Chiavarese, in the province of Genoa
• Castiglione Cosentino, in the province of Cosenza
• Castiglione d'Adda, in the province of Lodi
• Castiglione del Genovesi, in the province of Salerno
• Castiglione dei Pepoli, in the province of Bologna
• Castiglione del Lago, in the province of Perugia
• Castiglione della Pescaia, in the province of Grosseto
• Castiglione della Valle (now Colledara), in the province of Teramo
• Castiglione delle Stiviere, in the province of Mantova
• Castiglione di Garfagnana, in the province of Lucca
• Castiglione di Sicilia, in the province of Catania
• Castiglione d'Intelvi, in the province of Como
• Castiglione d'Orcia, in the province of Siena
• Castiglione Falletto, in the province of Cuneo
• Castiglione in Teverina, in the province of Viterbo
• Castiglione Messer Marino, in the province of Chieti
• Castiglione Messer Raimondo, in the province of Teramo
• Castiglione Marittimo, in the province of Catanzaro
• Castiglione Olona, in the province of Varese
• Castiglione Tinella, in the province of Cuneo
• Castiglione Torinese, in the province of Torino

In Corsica:

• Castiglione, Haute-Corse, a commune of the Haute-Corse département in France, on the island of Corsica

People

People with the surname Castiglione:

• Castiglione (surname)

See also

• Castiglioni
• Castigliano