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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1he was twenty years of age, and had already received some lessons on the violin from Giulio di Terni, a clever musician, who, strange to relate, in after years took some lessons from his celebrated pupil.
3It is difficult to say what might have been the future career of the young student had circumstances permitted him to continue his university studies to the end; but in the midst of them we find a love affair; in fact, a marriage without the consent of the parents, and the young Tartini an outcast from his family, reduced to fly and to wander about in search of a living. After many hardships he found his way to a convent at Assisi, where he was received hospitably by a monk, who was some family connection of his (we are told that Tartini's father received his rank of nobleman for some benefits connected with the Cathedral at Parenza). This good-natured friar, whose name has not come down to us, took pity on the youth's misfortunes, and allowed him to remain in the convent until something could be done for him.
5Here it was, thus isolated in the convent at Assisi, that he set to work vigorously with his
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