morbidezza

English

morbidezza (uncountable)

Softness, smoothness; also in a negative sense, weakness, effeminacy.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , II.20:
  Yea, when we forge its image in hir excellencie, we deck it with epithets of sickish and dolorous qualities: languor, effeminacy, weaknesse, fainting and Morbidezza, a great testimony of their consanguinity and consubstantiality.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Ludden to this entry?)
(art) A naturalistic delicacy in flesh tones.

morbidezza f (plural morbidezze)

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