{"id":674,"date":"2016-05-13T22:41:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T02:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=674"},"modified":"2016-08-24T11:53:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:53:36","slug":"suid207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Jean Grosley, <i>New Observations on Italy and Its Inhabitants<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=207 --><\/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> Grosley, Pierre Jean<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> English<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> New Observations on Italy and Its Inhabitants<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 2:173<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">2 vols. Trans. Thomas Nugent<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd> London<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1769<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\">\n<p>Italy always had, and Rome still has, <i>improvisatori<\/i>; that is, poets, who, like Alexander&apos;s Cherilus, compose and repeat two or three hundred extempore verses on any subject; a talent, which however is not so much to the praise of those who pride themselves in it, as of the language which is so copious and versatile as to answer all the varieties of such a knack, which Cicero has termed <i>audax negotium &amp; impudens<\/i>. There is reason to hope, that the present prevalence of a just taste, and a spirit of consistence in the republic of letters, will at length proscribe the frivolousness of these <i>improvisatori<\/i>, which too much abounds in most literary dissertations of Italian growth; and that these dissertations will keep to what they promise to treat of, and for the future not so easily admit common-place, parade of science, and things trite and vulgar.<\/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>Grosley observes that there is a historical tradition of improvisatori in Italy, and notes that it is the versatility of the language&#8211;rather than an abundance of talent&#8211;that creates so many improvisatori. Grosley describes improvisatori as &#8220;frivolous&#8221; and hopes that good taste will restrain them.<\/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\/674"}],"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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}