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Scan 136
Chats on Violins, 1905
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 114. See the scan on archive.org.
1Borsotto pure sottos-critto.' Then followed fourteen signatures, and the seal of the municipal arms.
3"With this document there is also beneath the case a gold medal exhibited, bearing on the obverse the arms of Genoa, and the words 'Ordo Decur. Genu'; and on the reverse the legend 'Nic. Paganino Fidicini cui nemo par fuit civique bene merenti Amd cccxxxiii I.' This medal was (it will be observed) struck six years before the death of Paganini.
5"I cannot now go into the many incidents in the life of this fiddle, which have been handed down to us by such historians as Fetis, Vidal, and Fleming, how it was once nearly left at an inn by his servant, and the touching story of Paganini's agony of mind when in 1836 it had to undergo a thorough repair. It was on this occasion that Vuillaume made the celebrated copy which Camillo Sivori received as a present from Paganini, and which he has played upon all his life, whether in public or private.
7"On the day following the events recorded above, the duties of my mission called me away from Genoa, and I went to take one
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