improvvisatore
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improvvisatori
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The sketches of Doney's Caffè and the Venetian improvvisatore are especially vivid; so is that of the old picture-dealer; though in all we think some of the phrases might have been softened with advantage.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
His poems fill many volumes; and all display the ease, perspicuity, and obvious beauty of the improvvisatore.
From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells
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
He could only write and talk,—and these rather as a kind of improvvisatore, than as a steady, reading, bookish man, like a Mackintosh or a Macaulay.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
Here the improvvisatore was interrupted by a lively Neapolitan lawyer.
From Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving
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 Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
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 Isaac Disraeli
The race of the "improvvisatori" has never died out in central and southern Italy.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
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