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A brilliant and lively essay on a fundamental aesthetic concept. Broad-ranging both philosophically and historically, the author treats the wit and paradox of explaining a rhetorical and performative action of speech or art-making that must conceal its artfulness for the sake of beauty, eloquence, and grace. -- Lydia Goehr, Columbia University In Sprezzatura, Paolo D'Angelo offers a 'history of ideas' that is typical of the best Italian scholarship in terms of its wide-ranging erudition and historical breadth, which are all too rare in English-language scholarship. It is very readable-hiding, as it were, the effort with which it was written. It shows how a 'history of an idea' can be written with both historical and philosophical panache. -- Paul Kottman, New School for Social Research This is an important and unique book on art and aesthetics that brings together classical and modern aesthetic theories, from Schelling and Kant to Danto and Dickie. D'Angelo's study is a tour de force through some of the most seminal texts of Western poetics, rhetoric, and philosophy, and it constitutes a mine of erudition and scholarly reflection. -- Massimo Verdicchio, University of Alberta In this brilliant volume D'Angelo explicates a simple term. . . and follows this concept through time and place. . . . Essential. * Choice *

This is an important and unique book on art and aesthetics that brings together classical and modern aesthetic theories, from Schelling and Kant to Danto and Dickie. D'Angelo's study is a tour de force through some of the most seminal texts of Western poetics, rhetoric, and philosophy, and it constitutes a mine of erudition and scholarly reflection. -- Massimo Verdicchio, University of Alberta In Sprezzatura, Paolo D'Angelo offers a 'history of ideas' that is typical of the best Italian scholarship in terms of its wide-ranging erudition and historical breadth, which are all too rare in English-language scholarship. It is very readable-hiding, as it were, the effort with which it was written. It shows how a 'history of an idea' can be written with both historical and philosophical panache. -- Paul Kottman, New School for Social Research A brilliant and lively essay on a fundamental aesthetic concept. Broad-ranging both philosophically and historically, the author treats the wit and paradox of explaining a rhetorical and performative action of speech or art-making that must conceal its artfulness for the sake of beauty, eloquence, and grace. -- Lydia Goehr, Columbia University

In Sprezzatura, Paolo D'Angelo offers a `history of ideas' that is typical of the best Italian scholarship in terms of its wide-ranging erudition and historical breadth and that is all-too-rare in English-language scholarship. It is very readable -- hiding, as it were, the effort with which it was written. It shows how a `history of an idea' can be written with both historical and philosophical panache. -- Paul Kottman, The New School for Social Research

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Paolo D’Angelo is professor of aesthetics at Roma Tre University. He is the author of a number of books on aesthetics and philosophy.

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