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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1twenty years before that date. Other writers giving the name of the Cardinal Aldobrandini as the patron for whom Cellini did the work. Mr. Phillips adds that that prelate placed the instrument in the Innspruck Museum towards the close of the sixteenth century. This statement is apparently made on the authority of its former Viennese possessor, but no one seems to think it worth while more particularly to individualise the Cardinal. It so happens that there were four cardinals of the name, but during the whole period of Cellini's earthly career not one of these had obtained the purple. The earliest was Giovanni Aldobrandini, who was not elevated until a few months after the sculptor's death in 1570. Ippolito—a brother of Giovanni—did not become Cardinal until 1585, and when he assumed the tiara, in 1592, as Clement VIII.—a name which he probably humorously took because Clement VII. had driven his father into exile—he created other two Cardinals Aldobrandini, viz., his brother Pietro, in 1593, and, in the same year, a sister's son, named Cinzio, who assumed the surname of Aldobrandini at his uncle's request. The first of these four cardinals—Giovanni—was a quiet, retiring, studious and grave man, who was wholly engrossed by the higher affairs of the Church, and who died three years after his elevation. His career in Rome commenced in 1554, when he became assistant to his father, who was, at that time, consistorial advocate; but, although Cellini, while himself at Rome, did make for some Church dignitaries and others, various things, such as beakers, tankards, chargers and seals, the great sculptor had left that city for the second time, and had been for
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