- Performer Name:
- Performance Venue:
- Performance Date:
- Author:
- Smith, Charlotte
- Date Written:
- Language:
- English
- Publication Title:
- The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer: Containing Narratives of Various Descriptions
- Article Title:
- Page Numbers:
- 1:216
- Additional Info:
- Vol. 1, Letter IV ("The Story of Edouarda")
- Publisher:
- Sampson Low
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Date Published:
- 1800
Text:
[describing the rustic Italian upbringing of the English protagonist Enrico/Henry Falconberg:] At nine years old he was no contemptible improvisatore, and could repeat with facility and grace all the most celebrated passages of Tasso and Ariosto; from whence the people of Italy, accustomed to hear them from their infancy, acquire that facility of poetical termination, which appears so wonderful to the more phlegmatic and matter-of-fact natives of the north. Young Falconberg, however, was favoured by nature with talents of greater importance.
Notes:
- Collected by:
- AE