. Gio: Paolo Maggini, his life and work . seem anunreasonable one that he may have chosen instrumentmaking from being fond of music. He may have had agood voice and received musical instruction. Many of theearly instrument makers we know were also musicians. What is certain is that he became apprentice to theBrescian instrument maker Gasparo da Sal6, and wasstill his apprentice when he was twenty-one years ofage. This is proved by a legal document dated 1602,signed by both Gasparo and Maggini, the latterstating himself to be an apprentice (garzone is the wordused) of Signor Gasparo. But if doc
. Gio: Paolo Maggini, his life and work . seem anunreasonable one that he may have chosen instrumentmaking from being fond of music. He may have had agood voice and received musical instruction. Many of theearly instrument makers we know were also musicians. What is certain is that he became apprentice to theBrescian instrument maker Gasparo da Sal6, and wasstill his apprentice when he was twenty-one years ofage. This is proved by a legal document dated 1602,signed by both Gasparo and Maggini, the latterstating himself to be an apprentice (garzone is the wordused) of Signor Gasparo. But if documentary evidence now directly provesMaggini to have been a pupil of Gasparo da Said;it is instructive to remember that this truth hadbeen inductively arrived at from critical examinationof Magginis work and comparison of it with that ofGasparo. The many points of similarity there arebetween the two will be noticed in detail later. On January 20th, 1615, Gio. Paolo Maggini, thenabout 34, was married to Maddalena Anna, aged 19, Plate Gio. Paolo Maggini. 25 daughter of Messer Faust Foresto, and probably atonce took his young wife to a house in Contrada delPalazzo Vecchio del Podesta, opposite to the OldPalace, of which in its modernised condition, andtenanted by one Zanetti, a saddler, a view is given onPI. III. We learn from a deed in the Archives ofthe Notaries of Brescia that on January 28th, 1615—eight days after her marriage—Magginis wife signeda receipt for the dowry fixed by her father, in thekitchen of this house on the first floor, one of thewitnesses* being Jacobo de Lafranchini, maestro diviolini, her husbands assistant living in the house, andwho, as we know from a document relating to Gasparoda Sal6, was a fellow apprentice with Maggini tothat maker. * Besides Jacobo de Lafranchini there were two other witnesses tothis deed—namely, Signer Santo de Santis, carpenter, living at the cornerof Contrada delle Bombasarie, and Signor Pompeo de Gissoli, bootmaker.
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