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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, 1864
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1been finally crowned with success, and have made known the precise date of the decease of this celebrated artist. In an authentic extract from the registers of the Cathedral of Cremona, signed and delivered by M. Julius Fusetti, vicar of that church, we have the proof that Anthony Stradivari was buried on the 19th of December, 1737, and consequently that he died on the 17th or 18th of the same month, at the full age of ninety-three years. But, by an inexplicable singularity, neither his own remains, nor those of his children, were deposited in the tomb which he had prepared for them; for the burial extract is worded as follows:
3"Nel libro col titolo: Libro de' Morti nella Chiesa di "S. Domenico, essistante nell' archivio di questa parrocchia "trovasi quanto segue:
4"A dì 19 Dicembre 1737. Dato sepoltura al fù sig. "Antonio Stradivari, sepolto nella sepoltura del sig. Francesco "Vilani, nella Capella del Rosario, parrocchia di S. Mateo.
5"Dalla Cattedrale di Cremona,
6"Li 19 Settembre, 1855.
8In fede
9Signé: Fusetti Giulio Vic°.*
10(with the church seal).
12* "In the book entitled: Libro de' morti (Burial Register) of the "Church of St. Dominic, existing in the archives of this parish, we "find the following:
13"On the 19th day of December, 1737: Took place the funeral of "the late Signor Antonio Stradivari, who was buried in the vault of "Signor Francesco Vilani, in the chapel of the Rosary, in the parish "of St. Matthew.
14"From the Cathedral of Cremona,
15"The 19th of September, 1855.
17In testimony
18Signed: Julius Fusetti, Vicar."
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