improvvisatore
Americannoun
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"The police is too weak and the banditti are too strong," replied the improvvisatore.
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
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
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
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
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