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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1The plan of the church and square here given will assist the reader in understanding the position of the chapel and other interesting places.
3An important point is mentioned by the historian above quoted, viz., that about the year 1720 the Parish Church of St. Matthews being judged too small to admit further burials in its interior, the Church of St. Domenico (its subsidiary church) was chosen as a place of burial for the parishioners, for which purpose it was used down to about 1780, and that Stradiuarius purchased there the grave mentioned. This statement is confirmed by the MS. left by the Abbate Lancette to the city of Cremona, wherein we find unquestionable evidence in a letter of Count Cozio de Salabue to Paolo Stradiuarius (a cloth merchant, youngest son of Antonius) dated 1775, in which, after mention of the price to be paid for all the instruments, models, tools, &c., left by Antonius, we read, "I am glad to receive from you exact information that the church in which your father was buried is that of St. Domenico." In another letter, written by the same Count Cozio a year later, occur the words "I have ascertained beyond doubt that Stradiuarius died in Cremona, and was buried in the Church of St. Domenico, in the year 1737, aged nearly 94 years." The stone with the inscription, "Sepolcro di' Antonio Stradivari E. suoi Eredi. An. 1729," is now preserved in the Town Hall of Cremona, and is an object of much interest to the many visitors.
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