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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1CERIN, Marco Antonio, Venice, end of the eighteenth century. Signed himself as a pupil of Belosio.
3Marcus Antonius Cerin, alumnus Anselmi Belosii,
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6CERUTI, Giovanni Battista, Cremona, 1755—1817. Ceruti made a large number of Violins and Violoncellos of the pattern of Amati. He appears to have been a prolific workman, his instruments numbering, it is said, about five hundred. His favourite model was the large Amati. Giovanni Ceruti succeeded to the business of Lorenzo Storioni in 1790, in the Via dei Coltellai, near the Piazza St. Domenico.
8CERUTI, Giuseppe, son of Giovanni, Cremona, 1787—1860. Was a maker and restorer of instruments. He is said to have exhibited, at the Paris and other exhibitions, Violins of good quality. He died at Mantua, in 1860.
10CERUTI, Enrico, son of Giuseppe, Cremona, born in 1808, died on the 20th of October, 1883. Enrico Ceruti is the last of the long line of Cremonese Violin-makers; there is, in consequence, a peculiar interest attached to him. Independent of this, however, he is deserving of special notice from his having been the recipient of the traditional history attending the makers of Cremona, from Amati to Stradivari and Bergonzi, and from
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