improvvisatore
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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
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
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
The improvvisatore had shown many symptoms of impatience during this recital.
From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington
Here the improvvisatore was interrupted by a lively Neapolitan lawyer.
From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington
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