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Scan 109
Chats on violins, 1905
22 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1Chapel of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, where Stradivarius was buried, has since been demolished and the ground turned into a public garden. The only record that now remains of his place of interment, is the following inscription on one of the ornamental vases in the gardens:
3"Here where formerly stood
4The Convent and Church of
5The Dominican Inquisitors
6The Town Council
7Have provided
8A pleasant prospect
9of trees and flowers
101878."
12On the new house which replaces Stradivarius', the following commemorative tablet has been placed:
14"Here stood the house
15in which
16Antonio Stradivari
17Brought the violin to its highest perfection
18And left to Cremona
19An unperishable name as a master of his craft."
21These two tablets are the chief public honours given by his native town to the gifted man who laboured incessantly for nearly seventy years in solving those problems
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