English Dictionary

vertu

noun

(art, now historical) The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities. / (art, now historical) Objets d'art collectively.

She appreciates the vertu of the painting.

意味（1）

(art, now historical) The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities.

To give them their Due, they ſoar a Step higher than their Predeceſſors, and may be called Men of Wiſdom and Vertù (take heed you do not read Virtue).

意味（2）

(art, now historical) Objets d'art collectively.

A Catalogue of a Truly Valuable Assemblage of Articles of Virtu of William Chinnery, Esq. Brought from Gillwell, Essex[…].

意味（3）

Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power.

All these connotations, even the positive and moral ones, are within the range of significations Machiavelli wants us to hear in “virtù.” For him the word suggests a kind of flexibility that can initiate effective, efficient, and energetic action based on a courageous assertion of the will and an ability to execute the products of one's own calculations. Such calculations are a significant adjunct to his ideas about virtù: they outline what might be called an internal or mental virtù.

意味（4）

Moral worth; virtue, virtuousness.