[Python] How to download spaCy models in a Poetry managed environment

I am writing a Python Jupyter notebook that does some NLP processing on Italian texts.

I have installed spaCy 3.5.3 via Poetry and then attempt to run the following code:

import spacy
load_model = spacy.load('it_core_news_sm')


The import line works as expected, but running spacy.load produces the following error:

OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'it_core_news_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory. The model name is correct as shown on https://spacy.io/models/it
​

After a web search, I see that a solution is to issue the following command:

python3 -m spacy download it_core_news_sm


After running this command the above code works as expected, however, is there a more 'kosher' way of doing this via Poetry?

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