BANDETTINI (_Teresa_), (1756-*). Marone, Quercio, and Silvio ANTONIANO (eighteenth century). BERONICIUS (_P. J._), who could convert extempore into Latin or Greek verse a Dutch newspaper or anything else which he heard (died 1676). CORILLA (_Maria Magdalena_), of Pistoia. Mde. de Staël has borrowed her Corinne from this improvisatrix. Crowned at Rome in 1766 (1740-1800). GIANNI (_Francis_), an Italian, made imperial poet by Napoleon, whose victories he celebrated in verse (1759-1823). JEHAN (_Núr_), of Bengal, during the sultanship of Jehánger. She was the inventor of the otto of roses (died 1645). KARSCH (_Anne Louisa_), of Germany. MAZZEI (_Signora_), the most talented of all improvisators. METASTASIO (_Pietro B._), of Assisi, who developed, at the age of ten, a wonderful talent for extemporizing in verse (1698-1782). PERFETTI (_Bernardino_), of Sienna, who received a laurel crown in the capitol, an honor conferred only on Petrarch and Tasso (1681-1747). PETRARCH (_Francesco_), who introduced the amusement of improvisation (1304-1374). ROSSI, beheaded at Naples in 1799. SERAFINO D’AQUILA. (See above, “Aquilano.”) SERIO, beheaded at Naples in 1799. SGRICCI (_Tommaso_), of Tuscany (1788-1832). His _Death of Charles I._, _Death of Mary Queen of Scots_, and _Fall of Missolonghi_ are very celebrated. TADDEI (_Rosa_), (1801- ). ZUCCO (_Marc Antonio_), of Verona (*-1764). To these add Cicconi, Bindocci, Sestini, the brothers Clercq of Holland, Wolfe of Altŏna, Langenschwarz of Germany, Eugène de Pradel of France, and Thomas Hood (1798-1845). =Inconstant= (_The_), a comedy by G. Farquhar (1702). “The inconstant” is young Mirabel, who shilly-shallies with Oria´na till she saves him from being murdered by four bravoes in the house of Lamorce (2 _syl._). This comedy is a _réchauffé_ of the _Wild-goose Chase_.—Beaumont and Fletcher (1652). =Incorruptible= (_The_). Maximilian Robespierre was so called by his friends in the Revolution (1756-1794). “William Shippen,” says Horace Walpole, “is the only man proof against a bribe.” ⁂ Fabricius, the Roman hero, could not be corrupted by bribes, nor influenced by threats. Pyrrhus declared it would be as easy to divert the sun from its course as Fabricius from the path of duty.—_Roman Story._ =In´cubus=, a spirit half human and half angelic, living in mid-air between the moon and our earth.—Geoffrey, _British History_, vi. 18 (1142). =Indra=, god of the elements. His palace is described by Southey in _The Curse of Kehama_, vii. 10 (1809). =Inesilla de Cantarilla=, daughter of a Spanish lute-maker. She had the unusual power of charming the male sex during the whole course of her life, which exceeded 75 years. Idolized by the noblemen of the old court, she saw herself adored by those of the new. Even in her old age she had a noble air, an enchanting wit, and graces peculiar to herself suited to her years.—Lesage, _Gil Blas_, viii. 1 (1735).