Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
improvisator .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who composes and sings or recites rhymes and short poems extemporaneously.
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- noun Alternative form of
improvisatore .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The poem is thus supposed to have been Shelley's attempt at improvisation, if not indeed a translation from the Italian of the 'improvvisatore'
Proserpine and Midas Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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Louis XVI, though decked in epic dignity, was something that touched and interested the age; and Bonaparte, even in pagan apotheosis, was so positive a subject that the improvvisatore acquired a sort of truth and sincerity in celebrating him.
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878
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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.
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878
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His poems fill many volumes; and all display the ease, perspicuity, and obvious beauty of the improvvisatore.
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878
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He had never wondered at the powers of the improvvisatore.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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He was an _improvvisatore_, composed verses on the incidents that occurred as they travelled along, and sang them with an accompaniment on an instrument called the _sansa_, which had nine iron keys and a calabash for a sounding-board.
Black Ivory Francis B. Pearson 1859
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One singular fact with respect to this mysterious dialect is, that it possesses no written nor printed books older than two centuries since; and no alphabet has been discovered belonging to it; consequently it has no literature; but it has preserved many songs and ballads, some of great delicacy and beauty; and its _improvvisatore_, by profession, are as fruitful as the Italians.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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Forsyth, enters in the web of every improvvisatore, and assists the poet both with rhymes and ideas.
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It is seldom that an improvvisatore attempts to recite without the assistance of music.
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He was of Rome; a surgeon by profession, a poet by choice, and one who was something of an improvvisatore.
Tales of a Traveller 1824
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