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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, 1864
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1"Finalmente nello stesso volume a pag. cxxxii, No. 923, leggesi la Epigrafe del sepolcro del celebre fabbricatore di violini Antonio Stradivari, che era già nel Pavimento, interamente rifatto della Chiesa di San Domenico de Padri Domenicani ed è la seguente:
3Sepolcro. Di
4Antonio. Stradivari
5E. suoi. Eredi. An. 1729.
7"In fede di quanto sopra,
8"Cremona, le 18 Settembre, 1855.
9"Il Prelato Primicerio Antonio Dragoni,
10"Ex Vicario Generale Capitolare
11"della Città e diocesi di Cremona."*
13Then follow three seals displaying the arms, names, and titles of the chief prelate Anthony Dragoni.
15The date, 1729, placed on the tomb of Stradivari, led to the belief that he had died at that period; but the discovery of a violin of 1736, in which Stradivari himself had stated his age to be ninety-two years, has completely subverted that tradition. Some new researches, made with indefatigable perseverance, have
17* "Finally, in the same volume, at page cxxxii, No. 923, we read the epitaph of the tomb of the celebrated violin-maker, Anthony Stradivari, which was formerly in the pavement—[now] entirely relaid—of St. Dominic's Church, of the Dominican Fathers, and is as follows:
19Sepulchre. Of
20Anthony. Stradivari
21And. his. Heirs. Year 1729.
23"In testimony of the above,
24"Cremona, the 18th of September 1855.
25"Anthony Dragoni, Chief Prelate (or Dean),
26"Capitular Ex-vicar general
27"of the city and diocese of Cremona."
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