Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737) . ?*p)i ^ ^«^|*>U^ imyv -An Original Stradivari Case, made to contain a Violin. Nicolaus Amatus—etc., etc., dated 1656. Forty gigliati isthe price asked—I say forty—including a fine and well-made case. You must tell me precisely what you thinkabout it. I am always at your command, etc. We also learn from this correspondence that Antonio,the son of Paolo Stradivari, sold the inlaid quintet * ofinstruments, together with two other violins, in 1775, to thePadre Brambilla for one hundred and twenty-five gigliati- * See Chapter II., p. jy. AMATI
Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737) . ?*p)i ^ ^«^|*>U^ imyv -An Original Stradivari Case, made to contain a Violin. Nicolaus Amatus—etc., etc., dated 1656. Forty gigliati isthe price asked—I say forty—including a fine and well-made case. You must tell me precisely what you thinkabout it. I am always at your command, etc. We also learn from this correspondence that Antonio,the son of Paolo Stradivari, sold the inlaid quintet * ofinstruments, together with two other violins, in 1775, to thePadre Brambilla for one hundred and twenty-five gigliati- * See Chapter II., p. jy. AMATI V. STRADIVARI 263 From the above information we glean certain facts : first,that an Amati violin was more highly valued than that ofStradivari—nearly four times more highly valued ; secondly,that thirty-eight years after Stradivaris death the sumsasked and accepted for one of his violins at Cremona waseleven and ten gigliati respectively; thirdly, that the grand-son of Stradivari, who must have heard his father mentionthe
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