This article intends to construct a profile of the baroque courtesan as the ideal male model in Portuguese and Spanish Courts of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries: a man that should be discrete, prudent, brave, honored and also dissimulated. To this purpose, the research was based upon doctrinaire literature writings such as Baltasar Gracián's El Héroe, D. Juan de Silva's Instrucción and Duarte de Albuquerque Coelho's Memorias Diarias de la Guerra del Brasil.
Courtesan Culture; Doctrinaire Literature; Courtesans