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(Previously: 2022 , 2023 .) #1. Baldassar Castiglione, The Book of the Courier This book gets cited from time to time as a sort of historical guide to "being cool," since the characters spend some time discussing the idea of sprezzatura , basically grace or effortlessness. More interesting to me was the differences between Renaissance conceptions of virtue, character, & masculinity / femininity…
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