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  1. 1 mai 2018 · The Improvisatore. : Hans Christian Andersen. U of Minnesota Press, May 1, 2018 - Fiction - 368 pages. A semi-autobiographical novel inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s travels in Italy—and one of the author’s best-known works in his native Denmark. Published to great acclaim in 1835, Hans Christian Andersen’s debut novel, The ...

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  3. Six energetic rowers plied the oars. A small boy crouched at the helm—a wonderful scene for a painting—his name was Alphonso. The water was a glassy green. The entire coast on our right seemed to be gigantic hanging gardens placed there by the bold Semiramis¹ of fantasy.

  4. 1 mai 2018 · The Improvisatore is a kind of Bildungsroman, a roman-a-clef, part Quixotic adventure, part travelogue, semi-autobiographical social romance, not without a somewhat precocious pro-feminist commentary. The novel, historically, easily rests beside Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther and the best of Dickens, of which I would cite my own favorite, Bleak House, for its alacrity and for ...

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  5. 10 août 2007 · The improvisatore, or, Life in Italy by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Publication date 1847 Publisher London : R. Bentley Collection robarts; toronto Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto Language English. 26 Addeddat ...

  6. 11 févr. 2016 · Addeddate 2016-02-11 22:21:27 Associated-names Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888, translator; Ward, Lock, & Tyler, publisher

  7. An Italian improvisatore has the benefit of a language rich in echoes. He generally calls in the accompaniment of song, a lute, or a guitar, to set off his verse and conceal any failures. If his theme be difficult, he runs from that into the nearest common place, or takes refuge in loose lyrick [sic] measures. Thus he may always be fluent, and ...