improvvisatore

American  

[eem-prawv-vee-zah-taw-re] / ˌim prɔvˌvi zɑˈtɔ rɛ /

noun

Italian.

improvvisatori plural

1. an improvisator, especially a person who extemporizes verse.

---

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• improvvisatori
  plural

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

improvvisatore improvvisatori

To these parties sometimes came Coleridge, who in conversation seems to have been a happy mixture of a German philosopher and an Italian improvvisatore.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 by Various

Here the improvvisatore was interrupted by a lively Neapolitan lawyer.

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

He was of Rome; a surgeon by profession, a poet by choice, and one who was something of an improvvisatore.

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

One peculiarity of the Italian banditti" continued the improvvisatore, "is that they wear a kind of uniform, or rather costume, which designates their profession.

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

Monti, in fact, was always an improvvisatore, and the subjects which events cast in his way were like the themes which the improvvisatore receives from his audience.

From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by Howells, William Dean

The improvvisatori poets, we are told, cannot sleep after an evening's effusion; the rhymes are still ringing in their ears, and imagination, if they have any, will still haunt them.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

Most of the celebrated improvvisatori have been Florentines: Sgricci is, I believe, a Neapolitan, and his rival Sestini a Roman.

From The Diary of an Ennuyée by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

The race of the "improvvisatori" has never died out in central and southern Italy.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo