Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737) . ARIS ANCESTRY prayers for her soul, and her body was conveyed on thefourth day of this month by me, Antonio Maria SpadaCoadjutor Priest of the Church of S. Matteo, to the Churchof S. Domenico, in which she was buried. The Register of S. Domenico tells us that SignoraStradivari was interred in the Chapel of the Rosary in thetomb of Francesco Villani. Antonio survived his wife until the following December on the 18th ofwhich month;he passed!a way, and wasburied on thefollowing record,taken fromthe registerof S. Matteo,reads as fol-lows
Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737) . ARIS ANCESTRY prayers for her soul, and her body was conveyed on thefourth day of this month by me, Antonio Maria SpadaCoadjutor Priest of the Church of S. Matteo, to the Churchof S. Domenico, in which she was buried. The Register of S. Domenico tells us that SignoraStradivari was interred in the Chapel of the Rosary in thetomb of Francesco Villani. Antonio survived his wife until the following December on the 18th ofwhich month;he passed!a way, and wasburied on thefollowing record,taken fromthe registerof S. Matteo,reads as fol-lows : In theyear of ourLord onethousandsev^en hun-dred andthirty - seven,on the nine-teenth day of the month ol December, Signor AntonioStradivari, a widower, aged about ninety-five years, havingdied yesterday, fortified by the Holy Sacraments andcomforted by prayers for his soul until the moment heexpired, I, Domenico Antonio Stancari, Parish Priestof this Church of S. Matteo, have escorted to-day hiscorpse with funeral pomp to the Church of the very. DEMOLltlON OF THE CHUkCH OF S. DOMENICO 23Reverend Fathers of S. Domenico in Cremona, where he was buried. The Register of S. Domenico confirms that the burialof the late Signor Antonio Stradivari, whose body wasinterred in the tomb of Signor Villani, in the Chapel ofthe Rosary, took place on the 19th day of December, 1737- Other members of the family were given burial in the tomb at later dates ; the last was his son Giuseppe Antonio, who died in 1781. There reposed the remains of Antonio Stradivari andcertain of his descendants until the year 1869 ; but in thatyear the powers that be willed that they should bescattered to the winds. The Church of S. Domenico, likemany another of Italys noble monuments, had, during thecourse of long years, fallen into a state of decay, and itscondition, going from bad to worse, had now reached astage positively dangerous. To obtain the necessary sumfor its restoration was out of the question. The to
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