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