“Italy and Italian Society” (The New Monthly Magazine)

The author alludes to an improvisatore who does not “improvise.”

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English
Publication Title:
The New Monthly Magazine
Article Title:
Italy and Italian Society
Page Numbers:
59: 310-311
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Part 2; Ed. at this time: Theodore Hook
Publisher:
Henry Colburn
Place of Publication:
London
Date Published:
1840

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[310] Here and there, in the salons of the ambassadors, or of strangers, where good dinners are given, Lord Harry used to meet some improvi- [311] sator, who did not "improvise," and two or three antiquaries who shut themselves up in their science, and scarcely opened their lips unless paid to do so.

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