Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737) . : On the 4th of July, 1667, having three timespublished the banns on feast days, the first on June 26th[wrongly written July in the register], which was a Sunday,the second on the 29th, the feast day of St. Peter, thethird on Sunday, the 3rd of July, announcing the marriagewhich Signor Antonio Stradivari, of the Parish of S. Cecilia,intended to contract with Signora Francesca Ferabosca,tof my parish ; I hereby beg to declare that, no impedi-ment of any kind having arisen, I, the Reverend PietroGuallo, Parish Priest of the Collegiate and renow
Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737) . : On the 4th of July, 1667, having three timespublished the banns on feast days, the first on June 26th[wrongly written July in the register], which was a Sunday,the second on the 29th, the feast day of St. Peter, thethird on Sunday, the 3rd of July, announcing the marriagewhich Signor Antonio Stradivari, of the Parish of S. Cecilia,intended to contract with Signora Francesca Ferabosca,tof my parish ; I hereby beg to declare that, no impedi-ment of any kind having arisen, I, the Reverend PietroGuallo, Parish Priest of the Collegiate and renownedChurch of S. Agata in Cremona, have united them to-day,here, in my church, in the holy bond of matrimony, in the ?X- See Chapter II. t We have retained the different spellings of this name as found inthe original documents. HIS FIRST MARRIAGE II presence of the two hereafter-mentioned witnesses, namely,Signor Francesco Feraboscho, of the Parish of S. Agata, and of Signor [remains unfilled]. On his marriage Stradivari appears to have left the. Kig. I.—The House of Stradivari. parish of S. Cecilia, and taken a house known as the Casadel Pescatore in the parish of his bride. The censusreturns for the year 1668 describe it as being occupied bySignor Stradivari, aged 28, Signora Francesca (his wife), J2 STRADIVARIS ANCESTRY aged 26, and Giulia Maria (his daugliter), aged 3 year previously the house was occupied by a certainFrancesco Mazzini, his wife and two sons. Here Stradivariseems to have lived until 1680, in which year he purchasedthe house now known as No. i, Piazza Roma, formerl)-No. 2, Piazza San Domenico (fig. i). His family had, inthe meantime, increased to five, one infant son havingdied.* The house was bought from the Cremonese familyof Picenardi for 7,000 imperial liref (approximatelyequivalent to ^840); the contract of sale, first made knownby Signer Lombardini,t is preserved in the NotarialArchives. From this deed, which is in Latin, ue learnthat Strad
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