{"id":722,"date":"2016-05-13T22:56:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T02:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=722"},"modified":"2017-01-01T17:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T22:01:05","slug":"suid231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Lord Byron, &#8220;Letter to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=231 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd> Sgricci<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd> Milan<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> 1816<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd> Byron, Lord<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1816<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> English<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> Byron&#8217;s Letters and Journals<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 5:124-5<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">Ed. Leslie A. Marchand<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd>John Murray<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd>London<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd>1976<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\">\n<p>[124] There was a [125] famous improvvisatore who held forth while I was there [i.e., in Milan]. His fluency astonished me; but, although I understand Italian, and speak it (with more readiness than accuracy), I could only carry off a few very common-place mythological images, and one line about Artemisia, and another about Algiers, with sixty words of an entire tragedy about Eteocles and Polynices. Some of the Italians liked him &#8212; others called his performance &apos;seccatura&apos; (a devilish good word, by the way) and all Milan was in controversy about him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n<p>Letter to Thomas Moore, from Verona, 6 November 1816<\/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>Byron writes of Sgricci&#8217;s controversial performance in Milan. <\/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":[77,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"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=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}