Above all, they agree that he should be brave, well educated, and eloquent, and should behave with sprezzatura. This meant a relaxed, dismissive nonchalance: doing difficult things as if by nature, making no visible effort. The word, to me, brings to mind someone carelessly flinging a cloak around the shoulders in such a way that it is left hanging perfectly, without needing to be pinned in place or rearranged. Sprezzatura was also the ideal in literary activity.
