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Improvisatore

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Im`pro`vi`sa`to´re
n.1.See Improvvisatore.


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While still at school he began writing the poems which he published in his freshman year at Oxford, The Improvisatore (1821).
The use of "improvisatori" (from Italian improvisatore, an entertainer who improvises verse) (4) for courtly entertainment during their isolation suggests that the setting of this tale is Italy or a nearby European country.
And he wrote compulsively--poems, travel pieces, and novels, including a fictional autobiography titled The Improvisatore that won acc laim.
 
 
 
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