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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1swords, daggers, and firearms, possessing a large number of armourers and metal-workers. A traveller, who visited the town about the time the Rugeris migrated to it from Cremona, notes the curious fact that women were to be seen in the streets and in the shops, a most extraordinary thing at that time in Italy, and caused, doubtless, by the active commercial life of the place. Twenty years later another traveller visited it, and the impression left upon his mind is briefly condensed in the statement that the people of Brescia were a proud set, and had got a fine new citadel. Not a syllable, however, in either case, is said about violin-making, that unobtrusive art of peace which had already taken root and was slowly germinating around them in this haunt of war, and which was destined to make the name of Brescia famous long after its bloody annals were almost forgotten.
3Gasparo da Salò (so called from either having been born in the small town of Salo, on Lake Garda, in Lombardy, or having come from thence to Brescia), the founder of this school, shares with his professional predecessors and some of his successors in that shadowy obscurity with which the paucity of information obtainable regarding them has shrouded their names. It is not known when he was born nor when he died. He is presumed to have worked in Brescia from 1560 to about 1610. The grounds of this conjecture are nowhere given. The figures are simply transcribed by one writer from another without further question or inquiry. If it be true, as has recently been stated by a very competent continental authority, that the authentic tickets of Gasparo da Salò are never dated (see Fig. 1), it is
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