The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, volume 2

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The great Antonio Stradivari, however, began his love-making like David Copperfield, by falling in love with a woman ten years his senior, when he was only seventeen. She was Francesca Capra; her husband had been assassinated three years before, leaving her a child. The boy Stradivari and the widow were married July 4, 1667, and on December 23d, a daughter named Julia was born. Francesca bore Stradivari six children. Her second child was a son named after her, Francesco; but Francesco died in in

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fancy, and the name, in spite of the omen, was given to the next son, who followed his father's profession, but never married. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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