elected was of a close nature
and hard appearance. The varnish is not equal to that of Carlo; it is
thin and cold-looking. The workmanship is very good, being often
highly finished, but yet wanting in character. The scroll is cramped,
and scarcely of the Cremonese type. Lancetti mentions a Tenor by this
maker, dated 1781.

In the correspondence which passed between the grandson of Antonio
Stradivari and the agents of Count Cozio (which is given in these
pages), reference is made to some of the moulds of the great maker
being in the keeping of ---- Bergonzi, they having been lent to him,
the writer saying that he would obtain them and put them with the
other patterns, which appears to have been done. These moulds were
doubtless lent to Michel Angelo Bergonzi, and were used by Niccolo as
well as his father, which accounts for the form of their instruments
being varied.

BERGONZI, Zosimo, Cremona. Brother of Niccolo.

BERGONZI, Carlo, Cremona, about 1780-1820. Son of Michel Angelo. He
made a few Violins, large Stradivarius form, sound-holes straight and
inelegant.

BERGONZI, Benedetto, Cremona, died in 1840. Tarisio learned little
points of interest concerning Stradivari and his contemporaries from
Benedetto Bergonzi.

BERTASSI, Ambrogio, Piadena (near Cremona), about 1730.

BERTOLOTTI, Gaspar di. _See_ Gaspar da Salo.

BIANCHI, Niccolo, Genoa and Nice. Worked until about 1875.

BIMBI, Bartolommeo, Siena, 1753-69. High-built, small pattern,
orange-yellow varnish.

BODIO, G. B., Venice, about 1832. Good workmanship; oil varnish, wide
purfling.

BORELLI, Andrea, Parma, about 1735. His instruments are little known;
they resemble those of Giuseppe Guadagnini.

BRENSIO, Girolamo (BRENSIUS, Hieronymus), Bologna. Reference has been
made to the Viols of this maker in the first section of this work.

BRESCIA, Da, Battista. A Pochette or Kit of this maker is at the
Academy of Music, Bologna, signed "Baptista Bressano"; the period
assigned to it is the end of the 15th century.

BROSCHI, Carlo, Parma.

Carlo Broschi in Parma, fecit 1732.

BUSSETO, Giovanni M., Cremona, 1540-80. Maker of Viols. M. Fetis
mentions, in his "Biographie des Musiciens," that Busseto derived his
name from _Busseto_, a borough in the Duchy of Parma, where he was
born. He also mentions a Viol of this maker, dated 1580, which was
found at Milan in 1792.

CALCAGNI, Bernardo, Genoa, about 1740.

Bernardus Calcanius fecit Genuae