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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1921
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1to consider splendid marriages; sad girls whose lovers had died or been separated from them; widows who scorned secular consolation; women of title who were safest out of the way for political or state reasons; pious ladies whose vocations demanded fitting recognition, but who, because of their birth, could not enter less distinguished orders—all these came in dove-flocks to Mantua, there to settle, softly, and learn the ways and words of the Un-World.
3Pietro Dardelli's real name was Pietro Zamure. How he gained the Dardelli, sometimes called D'Ardelli, is not known, unless it was some obsolete title in his family, revived for professional purposes.
5"Supposing this explanation to have been the true one," says one writer, "we are all the more puzzled, for being a religieux, the Gray Friar was not permitted to make violins for sale, and therefore could have had no object in a nomme de guerre, and could have gained no advantage from advertisement.
7In 1500 Dardelli is believed to have begun work. The statements that some of his instruments are dated 1496-97 may be true, but it is fairly well proven that he contributed no very valuable additions to the viols and violins of
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