- Performer Name:
- Giannetti
- Performance Venue:
- Florence
- Performance Date:
- 1785
- Author:
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch
- Date Written:
- 1785
- Language:
- English
- Publication Title:
- Bentley’s Miscellany
- Article Title:
- Inedited Letters of Celebrated Persons: Mrs. Piozzi
- Page Numbers:
- 28:309
- Additional Info:
- Letter dated 14 June 1785
- Publisher:
- Richard Bentley
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Date Published:
- 1850
Text:
[Letter to Samuel Lysons:] Count Mannucci, however, a Tuscan Nobleman, who was intimate in England with Mr. Thrale, at Paris with Mr. Piozzi, does all in his Power to make us amends, introduces us to literary acquaintance, and carried me to the Academy last Thursday, where I heard the famous Giannetti pronounce a eulogium on Captain Cook—very fine indeed! and the tender-hearted Italians wiped their eyes at the relation of his death. This Giannetti is the only improvisatore in Europe who makes his verses and recites them off-hand—the others all sing, and depend on the time given by the tune or chant for the invention of fresh rhimes and matter.
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- AE