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‖ conversazione|kɒnvəˌsætsɪˈəʊneɪ|
Pl. -oni |-ˈəʊniː|, now usually -ones. Also in 8 -atione.
[a. It. conversazione (in 16th c. -atione) conversation, assembly for conversation or social recreation.]
‖1. In Italy, the name for an evening assembly for conversation, social recreation, and amusement (often described by travellers in the 18th c.).
1740Gray Let. to his Mother (T.), The diversions of a Florentine Lent are..in the evening, what is called a conversazione, a sort of assembly at the principal people's houses, full of I cannot tell what. 1753Lady M. W. Montague Lett. (1887) II. 243, I have often smiled to myself in viewing our assemblies (which they call conversations) at Lovere. 1754Drummond Trav. 41 (T.) These conversazioni [at Florence] resemble our card-assemblies:—some played at cards, some passed the time in conversation, others walked from place to place. 1834T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 283 In most little towns in Italy good music; and conversaziones in all. 1866Howells Venet. Life xx. 331 The conversazioni of the demi-monde where they say everything.
†2. Introduced into England, and applied to the private assembly now known as an ‘At Home’. (Occasionally anglicized as conversation, q.v.)
1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. i. i, The charade you made last night at Mrs. Drowzie's conversazione. 1782F. Burney Diary 10 Nov., She is..foremost in collecting all extraordinary..people to her London conversaziones. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. 206 She held a sort of conversazione at her house..frequented by all foreigners. 1823Byron Juan xiii. cvii, With evening came the banquet and the wine: The conversazione; the duet.
3. From about the close of the 18th c. chiefly applied to assemblies of an intellectual character, in connexion with literature, art, or science.
1792A. Young Trav. France 238 In the evening to the conversazione of Signore Fabbroni, where I met Signore Pella, director of the gallery, etc...the company did not assemble in order to converse on the trivial nonsense of common topics, like so many coteries in all countries. 1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 200 In the balls, concerts, and converzationes of polite literature. a1845Hood Odes & Addr., To Kitchener v, Oh, hast thou still those Conversazioni, Where learned visitors discoursed—and fed?
4. Now chiefly used for a soirée given by a learned body or society of arts, at which the society's work is illustrated by the exhibition of specimens, experiments, and demonstrations.
1834Gentl. Mag. CIV. i. 208 (Architectural Society) Jan. 21, the members of this institution held their first Conversazione for the season at Exeter Hall, which was attended by 200 professors and amateurs of architecture. 1864A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 276 The organizing of conversazioni for more familiar and popular addresses on scientific subjects. |