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‖ terribilità|teribiliˈta|
Also terribiltà.
[It.]
a. In an artist or work of art: awesomeness of conception and execution, orig. as a quality attributed to Michelangelo by his contemporaries (e.g. by S. del Piombo in a letter of 9 Nov. 1520: see G. Milanesi Les Correspondants de Michel-Ange (1890) 24).
1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 230/2 In it the qualities afterwards proverbially associated with Michelangelo—his furia, his terribilità, the tempest and hurricane of the spirit which accompanied his unequalled technical mastery and knowledge—first found expression. 1923A. Huxley Antic Hay xviii. 253 All this folie de grandeur, all this hankering after terribiltà..it's led so many people astray. 1948Penguin New Writing XXXIV. 47 The Edwardian Mannerist arcade..with its stork and swiss⁓roll terribiltà. 1961Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 13/4 In these [sc. Piranesi's engravings of prisons] he conveys a degree of terribilità no one else has conferred upon architecture. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 720/1 That emotional intensity which Michelangelo's contemporaries recognized as his terribilità and which earned him the veneration of his juniors.
b. In general use: terrifying or awesome quality.
1957J. Raymond in New Statesman 28 Sept. 386/2 Half the horror of Rolfe's life—and its accompanying virtue, his pathetic and gallant attempt to live up to a self-taught conception of honour, terribilità, and esteem..—sprang from the fact that he was a déraciné and a homosexual. 1959Times 1 Apr. 11/4 The terribilità has long been drained from air travel. 1975New Yorker 12 May 42/2 Fathers have voices, and each voice has a terribilità of its own. |