Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737) . e customary three banns having been published both inthe Church of S. Matteo, as in this of S. Donato, on the25th and 26th days of July and the 2nd of August, as bythe regular declaration preserved in file, the ceremonytaking place in the presence of the Very Revd. DonFrancesco Bisoni, Parish Priest of S. Erasmo, invited byme, Don Cesare Rigotti, and in the presence of the wit-nesses Francesco Passano, son of the late Gio. Batta, ofCasal Maggiore, and of Antonio Cervini, son of the lateDomenico, of the Parish of S. Lucia. This second marriage
Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737) . e customary three banns having been published both inthe Church of S. Matteo, as in this of S. Donato, on the25th and 26th days of July and the 2nd of August, as bythe regular declaration preserved in file, the ceremonytaking place in the presence of the Very Revd. DonFrancesco Bisoni, Parish Priest of S. Erasmo, invited byme, Don Cesare Rigotti, and in the presence of the wit-nesses Francesco Passano, son of the late Gio. Batta, ofCasal Maggiore, and of Antonio Cervini, son of the lateDomenico, of the Parish of S. Lucia. This second marriage was blessed by five children, onedaughter and four sons, making in all eleven (see Ap-pendix). As will be noticed, several of the children diedyoung, and of the others two only, Omobono and Fran-cesco, embraced the career of their father, but neither ofthem can be said to have distinguished himself; they were, 20 STRADIVARIS ANCESTRY in fact, completely eclipsed by their brilliant and long-lived father. P>om the date of the second marria<rc. ^ig. HE Chapel of the Rosary and the Tomb of Stradivari. onwards little is known concerning Stradivaris privatelife; we can only assume, judging by the assiduity withwhich he kept to his work, thnt it was a fairly smooth one, DEATH OF HIS SFXOND WIFE 21 We see that he lost a son, aged 24, in 1727, and another in1732 ; but his wife remained to comfort him in his extremeold age, and died only a few months before her husband. Stradivari had decided upon his burial-place in 1729,in which year he purchased from the heirs of FrancescoVillani—the descendant of a noble Cremonese family—thetomb hitherto belonging to them, and which was situatedin a small chapel, named after the Blessed Virgin of theRosary, in the Church of S. Domenico (fig. 9). The tomb-stone whichmarked thespot bore thename and in-scription ofthe Villanifamily aroundthe sides, andin the centretheir coat-of-arms, all ofwhich Strad-ivari had ef-faced — anoperation b
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