{"id":670,"date":"2016-05-13T22:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T02:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=670"},"modified":"2016-08-24T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:50:10","slug":"suid205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Hunt, &#8220;State of the Civilized World at the Close of the Year 1812&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=205 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd>Gianni<\/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> Hunt, Leigh<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1813<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> English<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> The Examiner<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> State of the Civilized World at the Close of the Year 1812<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 6:36<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd>John Hunt<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd>London<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1813<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\">\n<p>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&apos;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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd> AE<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunt alludes somewhat satirically to Gianni&#8217;s reputation as an improvisatore.<\/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":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670"}],"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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}