Below is a prime example of a mispelling of our Surname from none other than Pietro Giovanni Guarneri The famous violin maker { more generally known as Peter Guarnerius of Mantua, was born at Cremona in the 18th of Feburary 1655, the eldest son of Andrea Guarneri and Anna Marie di Orcelli. }

Note: the two dotted " i's " in his signing of his name, & in also the translation below, Peter was signing in with other Witnesses for a marriage contract drawn up in August 1718 by the Mantuan Nottary Muti.

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