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I do not advise you, young man, even if my illustration strikes your fancy, to consecrate the flower of your life to painting the bowl of a pipe, for, let me assure you, the stain of a reverie-breeding narcotic may strike deeper than you think for. Violins, too, the sweet old Amati! the divine Straduarius!
Borgia as the son of the Duke of Gandia, and Amati even confuses Valence in Dauphiné with Valencia in Spain. In the state archives of Modena there are several letters regarding Lucretia's illness written by the Ferrarese physicians Ludovicus Carrus and J. Castellus. The duke to Costabili, his ambassador in Rome, October 9-23, 1502.
After a while, the corner is gently lifted up with the aid of a pointed knife, the end caught hold of and pulled; by degrees the whole of the upper ticket is lifted off, leaving to the pleased eyes of the chief the original ticket in all the better preservation for being covered up. "Yes, there it is! I knew I was right, a fine Nicolas Amati!
From the hurdy-gurdy of my childhood, down to Kubelik and his successors, I have been more or less music-mad. You play wonderfully!" Sudden, inexplicable shyness. Hawksley smiled. An hour or two with that old Amati. "I am only an unconventional amateur. You should hear Stefani Gregor when the mood is on.
By throwing the strong ray of an electric torch into the slot of the instrument she revealed to their wondering eyes a peculiar mark stamped in the wood of the back of it. "That, Mr. Drugg," the girl told him, quietly, "is a mark to be found only in violins manufactured by the Amati family. The date of the manufacture of this instrument I do not know; but it is a genuine Cremona, I believe.
For a long time our artist used a fine Guarnerius violin and afterward a Nicholas Amati, which was said to be the finest instrument of this make in the world. But the violin which Ole Bull prized in latter years above all others was the famous Gaspar di Salo with the scroll carved by Benvenuto Cellini. Mr.
He approached her rapidly as he spoke, and before the spell of him could be shaken off Kitty found her hands imprisoned in his. "Please! I've been so damnably bored. The two of us in the streets, among the crowds! No one will dare touch us. Can't you see? And then I say, this is ripping! we'll have dinner together here. I will play for you on the old Amati. Please!"
These chronicles are often confusing as to dates and full of mistakes. Marino Sanuto, Diar. vol. i, 410. March, 1497. This document is given in part by Amati in Strozzi's Periodico di Numismatica, Anno III, part ii, p. 73. Florence, 1870. In the archives of Modena. Letters of Donato Aretino from Rome. Letter of Ludovico Carissimi, Rome, August 8, 1497. Archives of Modena.
Instantly there was a dead silence and all eyes rested on Morris. "Where's what?" Morris asked. "The Amati!" Emil Pilz cried; and Morris laughed aloud. "Geh weg!" he said. "You are an expert!" Pilz shook his head in a bullying fashion. "Never mind if I am an expert oder not," he said. "Where is that Amati which I seen it myself at Geigermann's house only last night?"
This was the beginning of the end, and the valuable Amati violin soon went for eight hundred dollars, one-fourth its value, to a scoundrelly violin maker and dealer who told Von Barwig he had tried everywhere but could get no more for it, since there was a doubt as to its genuineness. Von Barwig took the money, which was further decreased by a twenty per cent. commission.
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