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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
4 lines. Read by computer on 30 September 2026. Printed page 87. See the scan on archive.org.
1They both claim to have been pupils of Stradivari. Camilus di Camila is another claimant, at Mantua, to the same honour, 1715 to 1739. There are others, about the same period, of second and third-rate order, whose names can only appear in a general list, as they have no particular claim to special mention.
3In the Cremonese and other tickets, the Latin name of the town terminates in various ways which it may be useful to indicate. One of these is Cremone, which is, probably, the ablative ending given to some Greek names imported into the Latin language, and used, when added to the name of a person, to signify his native place; it therefore means "of Cremona." Cremonæ is another form, and may be either the regular genitive of feminine nouns ending in a, and mean "of Cremona," or it may be the dative of the same declension, which is used to indicate the place where anything happens, and then it signifies "at Cremona." A third form is Cremona, the ablative of the same declension preceded and governed by the preposition in, and signifying "in Cremona." A fourth form is Cremonensis, a Latin adjective synonymous with "Cremonese." Cremonen is a fifth form, and is, probably, a contraction of Cremonensis.
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