The early modern term sprezzatura (from the Italian sprezzare, “to neglect,” and Late Latin expretiare, “devalue”) covered a spectrum of meaning ranging from laxity and nonchalance by way of elegance to understatement and dissimulation, and thus denoted the most important ideal of conduct in Renaissance and Baroquecourt society. Unlike the words from which it derived, sprezzatura was always positive in connotation [5]; [9].
Sprezzatura was coined as “a new word” (una nova parola),…