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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1of San 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 Stradivari purchased there the grave mentioned. This statement is confirmed by the autograph letter of Count Cozio di Salabue of Casale Monferato, Piedmont.
3The Church of San Domenico was, in consequence of its decayed condition, demolished about the year 1870. Becoming aware of what was taking place, I gave instructions that a photograph should be taken of the chapel in which the body of Stradivari was interred. This was accomplished whilst the workmen were in the act of levelling the structure, and it has been engraved on wood for the purpose of insertion in this volume. The stone with the inscription "Sepolcro di Antonio Stradivari E. Svoi Eredi Anno 1729," which serves to denote the spot where the body was buried, is now preserved in the Town Hall of Cremona. Signor Sacchi remembers it having been placed in the corner, close to the steps and iron railing inside the third chapel on the right, in the Church of San Domenico.
5M. Fétis says of Stradivari, "We know but little respecting that uneventful existence. Pollero, late first Violin at the Chapel Royal of Turin, who died a few years ago, at a very advanced age, declared that his master had known Stradivari, and that he was fond of talking about
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