- Performer Name:
- Sgricci
- Performance Venue:
- Milan
- Performance Date:
- 1816
- Author:
- Byron, Lord
- Date Written:
- 1816
- Language:
- English
- Publication Title:
- Byron’s Letters and Journals
- Article Title:
- Page Numbers:
- 5:119
- Additional Info:
- Ed. Leslie A. Marchand
- Publisher:
- John Murray
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Date Published:
- 1976
Text:
I have seen all the sights—& last night among others—heard an Improvisatore recite—a very celebrated one—named Sgricchi—it is not an amusing though a curious effort of human powers.
Notes:
Letter to Augusta Leigh, from Milan, 26 October 1816
- Collected by:
- AE