Cem Sultan
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| - | "“Taunts are also often humourously uttered with a grave air and without exciting laughter. As when [[Cem Sultan |Djem Othman]], brother to the [[Bajazet II, (born 1447; died 1512)|Grand Turk]], being a captive at Rome, said that jousting as we practise it in Italy seemed to him too great a matter for play and too paltry for earnest. And on being told how agile and active King Ferdinand the Younger was in running, leaping, vaulting, and the like,—he said that in his country slaves practised these exercises, while gentlemen studied the liberal arts from boyhood, and prided themselves thereon."--''[[The Book of the Courtier]]'' (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione | + | "“Taunts are also often humourously uttered with a grave air and without exciting laughter. As when [[Cem Sultan |Djem Othman]], brother to the [[Bayezid II|Grand Turk]], being a captive at Rome, said that jousting as we practise it in Italy seemed to him too great a matter for play and too paltry for earnest. And on being told how agile and active King Ferdinand the Younger was in running, leaping, vaulting, and the like,—he said that in his country slaves practised these exercises, while gentlemen studied the [[liberal arts]] from boyhood, and prided themselves thereon."--''[[The Book of the Courtier]]'' (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione |
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"“Taunts are also often humourously uttered with a grave air and without exciting laughter. As when Djem Othman, brother to the Grand Turk, being a captive at Rome, said that jousting as we practise it in Italy seemed to him too great a matter for play and too paltry for earnest. And on being told how agile and active King Ferdinand the Younger was in running, leaping, vaulting, and the like,—he said that in his country slaves practised these exercises, while gentlemen studied the liberal arts from boyhood, and prided themselves thereon."--The Book of the Courtier (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione |
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Cem Sultan (1459 – 1495) was a claimant to the Ottoman throne in the 15th century.
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