“Literary and Scientific Intelligence, Foreign and Domestic (Great Britain)”

Performances in Paris by the Italian improvisatore Pistrucci are a hot topic of discussion in London.

Performer Name:
Pistrucci
Performance Venue:
Paris
Performance Date:
 
Author:
 
Date Written:
1823
Language:
English
Publication Title:
The European Magazine and London Review
Article Title:
Literary and Scientific Intelligence, Foreign and Domestic (Great Britain)
Page Numbers:
83:363
Additional Info:
April 1823 issue
Publisher:
Lupton Relfe
Place of Publication:
London
Date Published:
1823

Text:

Signor Pistrucci, the Improvvisatore, or Impromptu Poet, whose talent has raised so much wonder in Paris, is become a subject of conversation in the polite circles of our metropolis. This most ingenious Roman is a man of learning and general knowledge, who composes and recites verses in any rhyme or stanza extempore, upon whatever subject may, at the moment, be proposed; and he does not limit himself to a few verses, but goes to the length of many stanzas of eight lines, not only without a pause, but without a single hesitation.

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