Monday, March 02, 2015

Grand allusions …

… John McPhee on Writing - The New Yorker. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



I've known about sprezzatura since I was in high school and read the Modern Libray edition of  Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Ran into it again in college. I'm surprised it's not better known.

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