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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1among Italian tradesmen, who banded themselves together in various societies bearing religious titles.
3This famous maker of Violins was born at Cremona in the year 1683, and died in 1745. To M. Vuillaume, of Paris, we are indebted for the identification of the date of his birth, which he succeeded in obtaining in the year 1855. The house of Giuseppe Guarneri was No. 5, Piazza S. Domenico, now called Piazza Roma.
5The extract from the register proves that Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, legitimate son of Giovanni Battista Guarneri and Angela Maria Locatelli, was born at Cremona on the 8th of June, 1683, and was baptized on the 11th of the same month, in the parish of San Donato, at the Chapel of Ease of the Cathedral.
7The original of this extract is as follows:—
8"'Guarneri (Giuseppe Antonio) figlio de' legittimi coniugi Giovanni Battista Guarneri ed Angela Locadella nacque nella parrocchia di San Donato aggregata alla Cattedrale il giorno 8 Giugno 1683 e batezzato il giorno 11 del detto mese.' Libro dei nati dal 1669 al 1692 G. dalla Cattedrale di Cremona, li 19 Settembre 1855. (Signé) Fusetti Giulio Vic°"—Fétis, notice of Anthony Stradivarius.
10The father of Guarneri del Gesù does not appear to have had any knowledge of the manufacture of stringed instruments, and was thus an exception to the majority of a family which numbered many prominent makers within it. It has been asserted on
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