To use the words of the talented author of the Improvisatrice, "Poetry needs no preface."

Her eldest daughter, Mme D'Orfei, is an excellent improvisatrice, and has frequently given us very favourable specimens of the inspiration which breathes itself in her soul.

She is the daughter of the proprietor of the Teatro della Valle at Rome, and sometimes performs herself in dramatic pieces; yet, strange to say, tho' she is an admirable improvisatrice and possesses a thorough classic and historical knowledge, she is but an indifferent actress.

She married the lawyer Domenico Dionigi, and gave him seven children, one of whom, Henrietta, became Madame Orfei, and was much esteemed as "improvisatrice."

I am extremely grateful to you for the very welcome information which you give me regarding an improvisatrice.

Other women were youngerand with features more conventionally beautiful; Kent could find a round dozen within easy eye-reach, to say nothing of the calm-eyed, queenly improvisatrice at the pianohis constant standard of all womanly charm and grace.

Her excitement had been muse-like, that of the improvisatrice, whose kindling fancy seeks to create an atmosphere round it, and makes the chain through which to set free its electric sparks.

An extraordinary account appeared a short time back in a well known Scotch magazine, of a female improvisatrice, which may have met your notice.

He inquired the cause and learned that the most celebrated woman in Italy would that morning be crowned at the capitalCorinne, the poetess and improvisatrice, one of the loveliest women of Rome.