The book ‘Stradivari unveiled’ The 72 and the 72 system | Gualtiero Nicolini

The book ‘Stradivari unveiled’ The 72 and the 72 system | Gualtiero Nicolini

The collaboration with one of my former students at the international school of violin making in Cremona has long established itself not only in his homeland (for example in the Canary Islands and in Spain – with a quartet for the queen at the Royal Palace) Saulo Dantas Barreto has recently led to numerous online meetings with Brazilian universities and the promise of official and face-to-face meetings in Fortaleza and San Paulo do Brasil next November.

The joint analysis and study of some pages of the two volumes found among the Stradivarian documents and reproduced in photos in my book “Stradivari unveiled” has led to the publication of one of his articles which highlights the application of system 72 by Stradivari as well as of his teacher Nicola Amati and as explained by Bagatella in his famous treatise on violin making.

This observation leads me to some reflections

‌It has long been known that the number 72 is linked to religion, magic, tarot cards. to the cabal and also to Satanism, as well as to love.

From Maia, to the Persians, to the Greeks, as well as to the Jewish religion, to the first Christians, etc., many have seen particular meanings in this number.

It represents positive values ​​such as justice, well-being, spirituality, introspection, intuition, tolerance.

If we start with numerology we see that it is composed of the 7 which represents wisdom, thought, the intellect, therefore the search for self-confidence and towards the outside world, but it is also composed of the two which in addition to the couple means family , sociability, hospitality, friendship, sincerity, the ability to open up to others, solidarity but also balance and the ability to mediate, introspect and find solutions to problems.

If we remain in the religious field we see that there are 72 books of the Bible, as Luke tells us, just as the number of disciples chosen by Jesus is 72 and the 72 scribes who translated the Tanak version of the seventy and 72 total number of Templar codices

On the vault of the Sistine chapel, Michelangelo also painted 72 angels 72 precisely those of the name of God while 72 is the value of the Hebrew word goodness (chesed) one of the “instruments” of God

72 is also an angelic number, that of spiritual awakening, of overcoming possible doubts, of the ability to overcome obstacles to reach spirituality.

In Satanism, on the other hand, there would still be 72 names of demons contained in the word they pronounce in the rites of their church

Then there are mathematical meanings ….

..the 72 is contained in the occult tarots and so on but many of these arguments were certainly unrelated to Stradivari and the eighteenth century and refer to concerts, arguments, publications, discussions, studies much closer to our times.

Instead, they were certainly known by the Jesuits and certainly by the important people who were part of his life such as the “friends” Pescaroli and Capra, as the sons who had embraced the ecclesiastical career Alessandro and Giuseppe Antonio and as some of the musicians who frequented his workshop. or the emissaries of the secretariats of state or of the ruling families or of cardinals some of the arguments related to 72 that I have enunciated and which prompted Stradivari to apply them as his teacher Nicola certainly did.

When the Bisiach publicly declared in the newspapers or literary magazines of the time or in court during the trial (claiming their originality) their certainty about the validity of the documents and claimed to have learned some news of the great master’s work or to have had confirmations of their intuitions certainly also referred to system 72 and to what new and important they had learned from the two volumes so reviled and debased by Farinacci’s friends.

Gualtiero Nicolini (Cremona)

The book ‘Stradivari unveiled’ The 72 and the 72 system | Gualtiero Nicolini