"Yes," said I, slowly; and then, with all the provoking nonchalance of an Italian Improvisatore, who always halts at the most exciting point of his narrative, I begged a listener near me to fill my glass from the iced punch beside him.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Another of the common errors about Scott is to represent-perhaps really to regard-him as a hit-or-miss and hand-to-mouth Improvisatore, who bundled out his creations anyhow, and did not himself know how he created them.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
The English consul, Baldwin, was, in 1795, visited by an Italian Improvisatore, who happened to have a small medicine-chest with him.
"Modern Magic"
Maximilian Schele de Vere