A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
man, whose only thought was how he could but turn his son's remarkable talent to his own advantage. This treatment soon engendered in the breast of the young man a desire for freedom, an opportunity, however, soon presented itself. He had, by repeated requests, managed to obtain from his father permission to attend the annual musical festival at Lucca, where he had obtained an engagement, and accordingly started on his journey in November 1798. Here he was received with so much enthusiasm that he resolved not to return to his parent, but set off to fulfil engagements at Pisa, and other towns, in all of which he performed with great success. In vain the angry and mortified parent endeavoured by all the means in his power to reclaim the young runaway who had thus set him at defiance. The young artist determined not to go back again into bondage, though for some time he remitted his father a portion of his earnings. The youth, intoxicated with the license of his life, plunged into all kinds of dissipation, especially into gambling, at this time much in vogue in Italy. Alternate fits of gambling and study, both of which he pursued with equal zeal, operated dangerously on his naturally enfeebled frame, and frequent illness prevented him fulfilling many engagements. More than
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