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Parts of two labels, one placed on top of the other, have been removed from the instrument. The lower has the inscription '-nardo Rot-', and 'fecit Anno 1-'. The upper is mostly indecipherable apart from ---assi, and fece in (Firenze?) . It may have, or perhaps they are imagination!, off-prints of Spo- on its back, and the date 1800 bottom right-hand corner. In a list of Italian violin makers I discovered an 1824 violin by Bernardino Rotella of Spoleto. Unless the guitar-maker was a Leonardo, it seems very possible that he was Bernardo Rotella, and the uncle or father of Bernardino.
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