Carolyn had sprezzatura, defined as “certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it,” in 1528 by Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier. One might guess she didn’t mind being a footnote in the la Repubblica article—a slight mention being a relief after the onslaught of attention she had been given by the papers in her home country.
