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Wittiness

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Wittiness
Bennet, Elizabeth
lively and clever character. [Br. Lit.: Pride and Prejudice]
Boyet
“wit’s pedler” and “an ape of form.” [Br. Lit.: Love’s Labour’s Lost]
Mercutio
clever, comic foil to Romeo. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet]
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It is this humanity, meant as a most eminent civil virtue, that becomes construed by Pontano as wittiness (facetudo), in its possibility of joyful pleasantness, and becomes for him the distinctive trait of a man faithful to the value of culture.
De sermone by Iorio, Dominick A. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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