Scan 441
The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
5 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 349. See the scan on archive.org.
1visiting Cremona, and thus they appear to have seen the Violin of Signor Boroni, and also another belonging to a monk or friar named Father Ravizza, both of which were subsequently bought, as seen by the following extracts from a letter of Paolo Stradivari:—
3"Cremona, July 10th, 1776. We learn from Messrs. Dupuy of the receipt of the seven giliati, which you have paid on our account. … As we have already prepared everything, we shall therefore inform Father Ravizza and Signor Boroni; I have, however, to mention that I did not think I possessed so many things as I have found. It being according to what has been promised, it cannot be discussed over again. … It will be a very heavy case, on account of the quantity of patterns and tools, and consequently it will be dangerous to put the Violins in the same package." The writer refers to the two instruments before mentioned:—"I fear without care they will let it fall in unloading it, and the Violins will be damaged; I inform you therefore of the fact. … You must let me know how I have to send the case. If by land, through the firm of Tabarini, of Piacenza, or to take the opportunity of sending it by the Pò." In passing, it may be remarked that the distance between Cremona and Casale by the river Pò is about sixty miles. The latter correspondence makes known the fact of the precious freight having been consigned to the firm of Anselmi di Briati by way of the Pò, and that it was entrusted to one of two readings
4"Cremona, July 10th, 1776. We learn from Messrs. Dupuy of the receipt of the seven giliati, which you have paid on our account. . . . As we have already prepared everything, we shall therefore inform Father Ravizza and Signor Boroni; I have, however, to mention that I did not think I possessed so many things as I have found. It being according to what has been promised, it cannot be discussed over again. . . . It will be a very heavy case, on account of the quantity of patterns and tools, and consequently it will be dangerous to put the Violins in the same package." The writer refers to the two instruments before mentioned:—"I fear without care they will let it fall in unloading it, and the Violins will be damaged; I inform you therefore of the fact. . . . You must let me know how I have to send the case. If by land, through the firm of Tabarini, of Piacenza, or to take the opportunity of sending it by the Pò." In passing, it may be remarked that the distance between Cremona and Casale by the river Pò is about sixty miles. The latter correspondence makes known the fact of the precious freight having been consigned to the firm of Anselmi di Briati by way of the Pò, and that it was entrusted to one of two readings
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