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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1doubtless suggested by the circumstance that he was a monk. His work is said to have been good, and he appears to have had some renown in his time, for he is credited with being the instructor of another Mantuan maker of violas, who will be named later on. Everybody says the same things about him in almost the same words, and the date allotted to him is about 1500.
3In the Exhibition at South Kensington, already referred to, a violin (?) was exhibited bearing the ticket of a maker hitherto unknown to fame. It is described as of "very old type," having only one circular sound hole in the centre of the instrument, a sound post, but no bass bar, four strings, &c. The ticket bore the inscription, "Pietro Zanure, Brescia, 1509."
5In 1510 a distinguished name appears, viz., Gaspar Duiffoprugcar, who was born in the Italian Tyrol, where he was a mosaic worker or inlayer. He settled in Bologna, in the year last mentioned, from which town it is said he was invited to Paris by Francis the First, in 1515. That monarch ascended the throne of France in 1515, but his celebrated campaign in Italy was not concluded until October of the following year, when Pope Leo X. went to Bologna to receive the conditions of the conqueror and sign the concordat; and, as it was during his sojourn in Italy that Francis, struck with the marvellous works of the Renaissance, determined to carry back with him to France the new art and such of its professors as he could prevail upon to accompany him, the probability is that the date 1515 is mere conjecture. Among the great names mentioned in history as having been attracted to France by this
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