concetto
Affected wit; a witty turn of phrase; a conceit.
Tasso in particular, Mirollo notes, treated the concetto "as the equivalent in a lyric poem of plot in longer works." Pellegrino, similarly, and with reference to Tasso, says that concetti "are the soul and the form of a composition" […]
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian concetto, from Latin conceptus. See conceit and concept, which are doublets.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry concetto (CC BY-SA 4.0).