ven.

The parish register supplies the information that Pietro was married
in the year 1677. He appears to have left Cremona for Mantua soon
after the year 1698. He visited Cremona about the period when his
father died; in which year he appears to have acted as god-father at
the christening of his brother Joseph's son Bartolommeo. Pietro
returned to Mantua, and later went to Venice, where he is said to have
died at an advanced age.

GUARNERI, Pietro, Mantua, born 1695. Son of Giuseppe filius Andrea. He
followed to some extent the form of the instruments of his uncle
Pietro, from whom, while in Mantua, he probably learnt his art. The
work is very good, and his productions are well worthy of the
Guarnerian name. The varnish is rich, but not so transparent nor so
well laid on as to come up to the full standard. The scroll is rather
weak.

GUARNERI, Giuseppe, Cremona.

Joseph Guarnerius fecit
Cremone Anno 17-- IHS

Better known as Giuseppe del Gesu, his labels having the cypher IHS
upon them. It is not known why he adopted this monogram, which is that
of the Jesuits. It is possible that he belonged to a fraternity in
Cremona, common at that period among Italian tradesmen, who banded
themselves together in various societies bearing religious titles.

This famous maker of Violins was born at Cremona in the year 1687, and
died in or about 1745. The house of Giuseppe Guarneri is said to have
been No. 5, Piazza S. Domenico, now called Piazza Roma.

An extract from the register proves that Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri,
legitimate son of Giovanni Battista Guarneri and Angela Maria
Locadelli, was born at Cremona on June 8, 1683, and was baptized on
the 11th of the same month, in the parish of San Donato, at the
chapel-of-ease of the cathedral.

This extract which was supposed to refer to the subject of this notice
relates to a child who died in infancy, and it is now satisfactorily
settled that Joseph del Gesu first saw the light on October 16, 1687.
The date of death is merely conjectural, and unsupported by definite
evidence.

The father of Guarneri del Gesu, namely Gio. Battista, was the son of
Bernardo, a cousin of Andrea Guarneri. He does not appear to have had
any knowledge of the manufacture of stringed instruments, and was thus
an exception to the majority of a family which numbered many prominent
makers within it. It has been asserted on all sides that Giuseppe
Guarneri del Gesu was a pupil of Antonio Str