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both seemed to be exhausted; and, in fact, the trumpeter, wholly spent gave it up, thinking, however, his antagonist as much tired as himself, and that it would be a drawn battle; when Fari- nelli, with a smile on his countenance, shewing he had only been sporting with him all this time, broke out all at once in the same breath, with fresh vigour, and not only swelled and shook the note, but ran the most rapid and difficult divisions, and was at last silenced only by the ac- clamations of the audience. From this period may be dated that superiority which he ever maintained over all his cotemporaries [sic].
In the early part of his life he was dis- tinguished throughout Italy, by the name of il Ragazzo, the boy.
From Rome he went to Bologna, where he had the advantage of hearing Bernacchi, a scholar of the famous Pistocco, of that city, who was then the first singer in Italy, for taste and know-
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