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9781859847619
"There's inherent drama to the story, with two real characters, to say nothing of the Stradivarius. But Delbanco...never ventures far into the two men's relationship....And while there's some nice detail about Cremona, Italy, and its brightest son, Antonio Stradivari, much of this slim, polite book bogs down in minutiae."Delbanco, Nicholas is the author of 'Countess of Stanlein Restored A History of the Paganini Stradivarius Cello of 1707' with ISBN 9781859847619 and ISBN 1859847617.
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