Index to Giovanni Bottesini: a Life

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• Aida (world premier)
• Arditi, Luigi (friend and colleague)
• Armonico, Ricardo (one of his students)
• Arpesani, Carlo (fellow Bass student)
• About the author(s)
• Automobile, Gary (world's most famous living Bassist)
• Barcelona
• His Bass (What we know)
• Berlioz, Hector (inspired by Bottesini)
• Biography, faulty
• His birth
• Boston
• Bottesini, Angela (his sister)
• The Bottesini Club
• Buddha, Gautama
• Cairo
• Chocolats du Bottesini
• Crema
• Days of Uncertainty (the Bottesini calendar)
• His death
• Il Devastatore (his bow)
  • The bow's origin
  • The custom-made bow theory (discredited)
  • Reasons for the Bow's name
  • The bow and the critics
  • The bow after his death
  • Moristo and the bow
  • The current owner of bow
• Donizetti (hypothetical luthier
• Dragonetti, Domenico (his predecessor virtuoso)
  • Dragonetti compared to Bottesini
  • Dragonetti and Bottesini's Bow
• His Dying Sayings
  • 1st version
  • 2nd version
  • 3rd version
  • 4th version
  • 5th version
  • 6th version
  • 7th version
• "Fingers" remark
• Fiorentini, Madame (his wife, possibly)
• French Bow
• His hands
• Havana
• Italian Opera Company
• His Japanese error
• Koussevitzky, Serge (a successor virtuoso)
• Legends about him
• Lind, Jenny (a contemporary -- and more?)
• London
• Marinetti, E.F.T.
• His Metodo Completo
• Milan
  • The Milan Conservatory
  • Milan, 1839 (a fictional account, authorized by the IBSU)
• The Moristo (dangerous worldwide conspiracy)
• MTIC (indcludes order form)
• New York
• Paganini, Nicolo (the Bottesini of the Violin)
• His paranoid tendencies
• Paris
• Parma
• Philadelphia
• The Pope
• Religion and Bottesini
  • Buddhism
  • Islam
  • Roman Catholicism
• Suggested revisions to Der Ring Des Nibelungen
• Richward, Edmond (luthier)
• The risorgimento (his role in the liberation of Italy)
• Rossi, Luigi (his teacher)
• Section man (unnamed)
• Sivori (a would-be rival)
• Statini (a mysterious luthier)
• Statini, Frank (neighbor in New York)
• St. Petersburgh
• Trieste
• The Tsar (frightening episode)
• Umberto, Franco D. (his arch-enemy)
  • The death of Umberto
  • Resistance to Umbertian plots
• The avatar of uncertainty
• Veneration of the master (modern)
• Venice
• Verdi, Giuseppi (friend and collaborator)
• Victims of his enemies
  • A fellow student
  • His sister
  • His wife
  • His teacher
• Vienna
• Wagner, Richard (an infrequent correspondent)
• Williams, Claudine Florentine (English soprano