- Performer Name:
- Gianni
- Performance Venue:
- Performance Date:
- Author:
- Hunt, Leigh
- Date Written:
- 1813
- Language:
- English
- Publication Title:
- The Examiner
- Article Title:
- State of the Civilized World at the Close of the Year 1812
- Page Numbers:
- 6:36
- Additional Info:
- Publisher:
- John Hunt
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Date Published:
- 1813
Text:
With the exception of Canova, the Italian sculptor, who is said to be an artist of great genius, we have heard of nothing else in the line of Bonaparte's inspiration, but the extravagant hymns of some Jews, who plainly call him their Messiah, and the extemporaneous effusions of one Gianni (Johnny) who has a pension, we believe, at Paris, and is represented as a wonderful improvvisatore. We should like to see his Delphic verses committed to paper, upon which these improvvisatori have a wonderful knack of falling off.
Notes:
- Collected by:
- AE