Talk:Ducal Palace, Urbino

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User:Northglen added the following paragraph on 2006-10-09:

The Ducal Palace is best remembered by the conversations which took place in the Hall of Vigils in 1517. They are recorded in The Book of the Courtier by Baldassarre Castiglione. In his book Civilization Kenneth Clark states, "For over a hundred years it formed everyone's notion of good manners. Actually it is much more than a handbook on polite behaviour, because Castiglione's ideal of a gentleman is based on real human values." The book ends "with a moving discourse on the subject of love...(It) unites the medieval concept of chivalry with the ideal love of Plato."

Apart from spelling and style errors (corrected here), frankly cannot see the relevance of this in the article devoted to Ducal Palace. Can one really think that one of the most important Renaissance palaces of the world is "best remembered" for such a stuff? And who's Kenneth Clark? Let me know and good work!!--Attilios 23:52, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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Well, Kenneth Clark is notable enough for an encyclopedia article, and the setting of Castiglione's famous book here is one of the most notable things about the Palazzo Ducale. While Clark's praise of the Book of the Courtier itself may not belong here, I'm restoring what was valuable in Northglen's contribution to the article. Wareh 20:30, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Cost

The 1903 edition of the Book of the Courtier lists a footnote expressing the cost of building the palace at £400,000. However, that would be in 1903 (or therabouts) pounds. Any idea what that would be in today's money? (This is in footnote 447). The Jade Knight (talk) 18:34, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

According to this calculator, that's equivalent in today's money to £32 million (using the retail price index) or £172 million (using average earnings). Wareh (talk) 20:34, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Architectural praise and opinion deleted

It must be assumed that the uncited opinions on the design of the Palace, which I removed, were the editor's own, which violates NPOV policy. There are Sources listed, and if those are the sources on which the deleted text was based, then they should have been cited internally. Otherwise, the attribution of the design of the Palace after Laurana can only be speculation, i.e. POV. The works in the Sources section, which I did not delete, came after the Clark source (and in 1969 Kenneth Clark was a preeminent art scholar), so if they provide a scholarly updating of knowledge about who built the Palace, then they should be cited specifically and by page, by footnotes in the narrative. — J M Rice (talk) 16:21, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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