... one bearing a ticket in the handwriting of Stradivarius, in which his name, his age, and the date of the violin were given. He was then ninety-two years old, and the date of the violin was 1736. ... west, the Cathedral, with its tall campanile, rose dark against the sky, and what a sky! full of clear sun in the morning,full of pure heat all day, and bathed with ineffable tints in the cool of ... 21which they would make in the world, appearing with the announcement on the title-page that they were the work of a child of seven years old. He thought well of these sonatas, independently of their...