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Paganini treasured the instrument for the rest of his life. He took it home to Genoa, where he devised some of the fantastic technical tricks-such as playing pizzicato with his left hand while bouncing his bow across the strings with his right to create a dazzling cascade of notes-that bewitched audiences all over Europe. On the last night of his life, in 1840, he called for it, and spent some of his last moments improvising on its strings. In his will, he left it to the city of Genoa, for "perpetual conservation...
...Genoa has long abided by the fiddler's will. Every year the mayor, the community's secretary general, a museum official and a notary public gather around the glass case, solemnly break the seal and lift the violin out for an annual tuning and workout. In latter years, a distinguished violinist has been invited to do the job. This year Genoa took out some extra Paganini memorabilia, asked French Violinist Zino Francescatti to give the Guarneri its annual tuning. Perhaps because Francescatti is Paganini's lineal musical descendant (his father studied with Paganini's only real...
Gabriele Mussi's mother, Candida, played the national lotteries all her life, but cautious Gabriele never did. A slight, earnest man of 35, Gabriele is a farm foreman at Sant 'Ilario, near Genoa, where he lives quietly with his wife. Last year his chance-taking mother died, at 75. Last month Gabriele, walking in downtown Genoa, passed a vendor selling tickets on the Merano lottery, Italy's oldest and largest. He remembered that it was the first anniversary of his mother's death. For the first time in his life-in memory of his mother-Gabriele...
...this week's Seawanhaka Cup competitions, also for Six-Meters, the British challenger Marylette got off to a sad start by snapping her mast in a stiff breeze, while the U.S. defender Llanoria, supposedly left hopelessly behind with a torn mainsail, plodded home to win under Genoa jib and spinnaker...
...climbing boots and pickax into an Alp, but he still suffers the mountaineer's fever-the looking for other peaks to climb while still chivvying and picking his way up the peak beneath his feet. "He always sees the next summit," explained a friend. Last week in Genoa, where bombed-out ruins of the past are still visible behind the shiny new fagades of the present, he stood before a mass of dockworkers and shipworkers...