Concetto (Italian; from Latin conceptus, “gathering,” “thought/purpose”) is a term that was adopted into many western European languages (Spanish concepto/conceto, English conceit). Ernst Robert Curtius defines it as an “acute” (“scharfsinnig”) or “pedantic” (“spitzfindig”) expression and “semantic play” (“Sinnspiel”) [2. 298, 301], and Hugo Friedrich as “as abnormal a payoff as possible, a striking semantic or conceptual play, eloquent, telling, stinging, and recherché” (“eine möglichst…