{"id":494,"date":"2016-05-13T11:56:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=494"},"modified":"2016-07-22T20:45:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T00:45:33","slug":"suid120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Abb\u00e9 [Charles] Dupaty, <i>Travels through Italy, in a Series of Letters, Written in the Year 1785<\/i> (Letter 29)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=120 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd> Dupaty, Abb\u00e9 [Charles]<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1785<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> English<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> Travels through Italy, in a Series of Letters, Written in the Year 1785<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> Letter 29<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 89<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd> Dublin<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1789<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\">\n<p>Nothing is more easy than to <i>improvisare<\/i>, in Italian; a language where every phrase may be a verse, and every word a rhime; in a language which has so many echoes. Besides that an improvisatore is neither required to think, nor to occasion thought in his hearer. A certain number of common-place expressions, of pretexts for words, is all that is expected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n&nbsp;\n    <\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd> DP<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abb\u00e9 Dupaty argues that little skill is required for the art of improvisation in Italian, citing the natural characteristics of the language, and the prevalence of conventional expressions in improvised performances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}