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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1CHAPTER II.
3THE CREMONESE SCHOOL AND ITS ITALIAN FOLLOWERS.
5The town of Cremona, now enjoying a celebrity among men which, perhaps—such is the curious constitution of human affairs—all its deplorable misfortunes would not have yielded to it for more than a few generations, is situated on the banks of the Po. It is a very ancient town, the history of its foundation disappearing in the mists of time. Its name is not, I think, unlikely to be of Greek origin, probably from the root κρη or κρημ, a "cliff" or "high rock," and μόνος, "alone" or "lonely." In the early days it suffered terrible desolation at the hands of the Romans, and not less from the barbarity of the Goths, the Lombards, and the Sclavs, the latter having, in the year 630, rased it to the ground. The same fate was meted out to it about 100 years later by Frederic Barbarossa. All these misfortunes did not, however, prevent the Cremonese rebuilding their city, and although rarely enjoying any real tranquillity from the effects of internecine wars and broils, caused by the
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