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Scan 90
Chats on violins, 1905
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 70. See the scan on archive.org.
1The union was solemnised at the Church of St Agatha, and the Marriage Register of the parish recounts:
3"On the 4th July 1667, having three times published the banns on feast days, the first on 26th June, which was a Sunday, the second on the 29th, the feast day of St Peter, the third on Sunday the 3rd July, announcing the marriage which Signor Antonio Stradivari of the parish of St Cecilia, intended to contract with Signora Francesca Ferabosca of my parish; I hereby declare that no impediment having arisen, I, the Reverend Pietro Guallo, Parish Priest of the Collegiate and renowned Church of St Agata in Cremona, have united them to-day, here, in my Church, in the holy bond of matrimony, in the presence of the two hereafter mentioned witnesses, namely Signor Francesco Ferabosco, of the Parish of St Agata, and of Signor ———" (this remains unfilled).
5After this marriage came the more earnest work and vigorous aplomb of the man who sees the possibilities of the game of life spreading out before him; and in 1679 an opportunity for a display of this energy was
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