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improvvisatore

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

noun

Italian.
  • improvvisatori
    plural
  1. an improvisator, especially a person who extemporizes verse.


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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 Washington Irving

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 William Dean Howells

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

There was a famous improvvisatore who held forth while I was there.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

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

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

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

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

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