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The fiddle fancier's guide; a manual of information regarding violins, violas, basses and bows of classical and modern times, together with biographical notices and portraits of the most famous performers of these instruments, 1892
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1The next important discovery which Professor Berenzi made, was the marriage entry of January 20th, 1615, from which we see that Maggini was married to Anna, daughter of Fausto Foresto on that day. Continuing his investigations, Professor Berenzi made out a list of Maggini's children—ten—with the dates of birth and death, and, further, the approximate date of the violin-maker's death, from the return made by the son Carlo, and already referred to. The Professor's next discovery was the entry recording the date of the widow's death, namely, November 24th, 1651, and he concludes his very interesting article by speculating as to the identity of the maker whom we have hitherto called Pietro Santo Maggini. All these particulars were published in detail in the year 1890, in a periodical published in Brescia, and called "Il Bibliofilo." After this very satisfactory search, Professor Berenzi continued his investigations for the purpose of bringing to light, if possible, the place and date of Maggini's birth. After a deal of patient searching in the parishes in the neighbourhood of Brescia, he discovered the entry in the records of the small parish of Botticino Sera (West), and published it in a little pamphlet entitled, "La Patria di Giovanni Paolo Maggini," in 1891. The credit of these discoveries from first to last, and almost verbatim et literatim, belongs to Professor Berenzi, and apparently to no other person whatever, with the exception of Cavalier Livi, whose counsels and assistance he gratefully acknowledges as well as the services of Messrs. A. Coen, and D. L. Corbolani.
3The instruments by G. P. Maggini which I have seen
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