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  • as a quality of the courtier: doing everything gracefully, without the appearance of effort. Let's all use the word sprezzatura once today!
  • Had forgotten that Caccini's (1602) sprezzatura (too loosely translated as rubato) is first mentioned in Castiglione's The Courtier (1528).
  • Unless you came to the show, in which case it's really very like it indeed.