“Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.”

— Baldassarre Castiglione

Usar in ogni cosa una certa sprezzatura, che nasconda l'arte e dimostri ciò che si fa e dice venir fatto senza fatica e quasi senza pensarvi.
Bk. 1, ch. 26; p. 35.
Souced, Il Libro del Cortegiano (1528)

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