improvvisatore
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improvvisatori
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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
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 Howells, William Dean
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
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
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
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