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He was holding forth with all the fluency of a man who talks well and likes to exert his talent. He was of Rome; a surgeon by profession, a poet by choice, and one who was something of an improvvisatore. He soon gave the Englishman abundance of information respecting the banditti.
"But why does not the police interfere and root them out?" said the Englishman. "The police is too weak and the banditti are too strong," replied the improvvisatore. "To root them out would be a more difficult task than you imagine.
"Ye sons of Indolence! do what you will, And wander where you list, through hall or glade; Be no man's pleasure for another stayed: Let each as likes him best his hours employ, And cursed be he who minds his neighbor's trade!" To these parties sometimes came Coleridge, who in conversation seems to have been a happy mixture of a German philosopher and an Italian improvvisatore.
Or make up" here she indulged herself in an airily imperious flight "a story of your own on the spot." A trifling request, truly. But "Heavens!" said Cope. "I am not an author still less an improvvisatore." "I am sure you could be," returned Medora fondly. "Just try." Cope sat down again and began to run his eye uncomfortably about the room, as if dredging the air for an idea.
"Religion! religion?" echoed the Englishman. "Yes religion!" repeated the improvvisatore. "Scarce one of them but will cross himself and say his prayers when he hears in his mountain fastness the matin or the ave maria bells sounding from the valleys.
Of the workmanship little need be said, except that it is wholly Lombard, distinguished from the similar work of Della Quercia at Bologna and Siena by a more imperfect feeling for composition, and a lack of monumental gravity, yet graceful, rich in motives, and instinct with a certain wayward improvvisatore charm.
He could only write and talk, and these rather as a kind of improvvisatore, than as a steady, reading, bookish man, like a Mackintosh or a Macaulay. His politics partook of this character, and I always used to think that it was a queer destiny which made him a Radical teacher. The Radical literature of England is, with few exceptions, of a prosaic character.
The sketches of Doney's Caffè and the Venetian improvvisatore are especially vivid; so is that of the old picture-dealer; though in all we think some of the phrases might have been softened with advantage. We enter our earnest protest also against the Ruskin chapter. The scenes at Graefenberg are fresh, lively, and interesting.
They shouldered their fusils, sprang gaily up the rocks, and the little doctor hobbled back to Terracina, rejoicing that the robbers had let his seal ring, his watch, and his treatise escape unmolested, though rather nettled that they should have pronounced his veritable intaglio a counterfeit. The improvvisatore had shown many symptoms of impatience during this recital.
A wish was of course expressed to hear the adventure of the doctor by all except the improvvisatore, who, being fond of talking and of hearing himself talk, and accustomed moreover to harangue without interruption, looked rather annoyed at being checked when in full career. The Neapolitan, however, took no notice of his chagrin, but related The following anecdote.
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