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Cremona

noun

A city in Lombardy on the Po River; noted for the manufacture of fine violins from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

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"Cremona" Quotes from Famous Books

... its own bellows, mend its shattered keys, move its pedals, and play, with no foreign aid, "I know that my Redeemer liveth," or a violin tunes up its discordant strings and wields its bow in a spontaneous performance of the Carnival, showing us every Cremona as its own Paganini, we may, despite the conceits of speculative disbelief, hold that the mind is a dynamic personal entity. That thought is the very "latch string of ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... THE WRITINGS of Ab[u] al-Q[a]sim Khalaf ibn aEuroAbb[a]s al-Zahr[a]w[i]—better known as Abulcasis (d. ca. 1013)—to Western Europe was through the Latin translation of his surgical treatise (maq[a]lah) by Gerard of Cremona (d. 1187).[1] The response to this treatise, thereafter, was much greater than the attention paid to the surgery of any of the three renowned physicians of the Eastern Caliphate: al-R[a]z[i] (Latin, Rhazes, d. ca. 925), the greatest clinician ...

— Drawings and Pharmacy in Al-Zahrawi's 10th-Century Surgical Treatise • Sami Hamarneh

... that the highest plane of perfection in the violin was reached in Italy about 1600. The Cremona makers, Amati, Guarnerius, and Stradivarius, made their most celebrated instruments ...

— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... takes a century, more or less, to make them thoroughly acquainted. At last they learn to vibrate in harmony, and the instrument becomes an organic whole, as if it were a great seed-capsule which had grown from a garden-bed in Cremona, or elsewhere. Besides, the wood is juicy and full of sap for fifty years or so, but at the end of fifty or a hundred more gets tolerably ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes

Words linked to "Cremona" : city, Lombardia, Lombardy, metropolis, urban center