A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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of violin playing, also founder of the Paduan school, the teachings of which have been transmitted through generations of pupils to the present ime. He received his first musical education in a college called Dei Padri dclle Scuole, and received some lessons on the violin: rom one Giulio di Terni. His father, a pious church benefactor, and a man of high position, originally intended that the young Guiseppe should enter the legal profession, and in 1710 sent him to the University of Padua to pursue his studies. The love of music, however, exercised such a powerful influence over him, that he ultimately abandoned all thoughts of the law, and applied himself with assiduity to the study of musical theory, and in particular the violin, upon which instrument he made rapid advances. He also had a strong propensity for the art of fencing, in which, it is said, he eventually equalled his instructor. Before he was twenty, having married without the consent of his parents, they wholly abandoned him, and he was obliged to wander about in search of an asylum ; which, after many hardships, he found in a Convent at Assisi, where he was received by a Monk, a relative of his, who, commiserating his misfortune, suffered him to remain there till something better could be done for him. Here he practised the
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