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" expressing what he had just heard, but " in vain: he, however, then composed " a piece, which is perhaps, the best of " all his works, he called it the Devil's " Sonata, but it was so inferior to what " his sleep had produced, that he de- " clared he would have broken his in- " strument, and abandoned music for " ever, if he could have subsisted by any " other means *."
He married early a wife of the Xan- tippe sort, and his patience upon the most trying occasions was always truly Socra- tic. He had no other children than his scholars, of whom his care was constantly paternal. Nardini, his first, and favourite pupil, came from Leghorn to see him in his sickness, and attend him in his last moments, with true filial affection and tenderness. During the latter part of his life he played but little, except at the church of St. Anthony of Padua, to which he had devoted himself so early as
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