QOTD, plus a question
"A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well."
-Louisa May Alcott
What is sprezzatura?
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well."
-Louisa May Alcott
What is sprezzatura?
posted by Anonymous @ 8:11 PM
2 Comments:
At 8/24/2006 2:14 AM,
Anonymous said…
i think it relates to a typical upper class attitude
At 8/25/2006 6:39 AM,
Anonymous said…
A term coined by Italian statesman Baldesar Castiglione in his Il libro del cortegiano (1528) to describe an ideal of courtly behavior. Castiglione defined sprezzatura as a style of behavior in which every action "conceals art, and presents what is done and said as if it was done without effort and virtually without thought" (Book 1, Chapter 26). Sprezzatura is usually translated as nonchalance.
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