Improvisʹatrix or Improvisatrice.

The most famous improvisatrices or female improvisators are:

Maria Magdaleʹna Morelli Fernandez, surnamed the Olympic Corilla, crowned at Rome for improvisation (1740–1800).

Tereʹsa Bandettiʹni (1763-*).

Rosa Taddei (1801-*)

Signora Mazzei, the most talented of all.

Nur Jehan, of Bengal (d. 1645). She was the inventor of the Otto of Roses.

Anna Louisa Karchin, a German (1722–1791.)

· ·

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.