Regional violin making from the 19th to the 20th century - Emilia Romagna

In the mid-19th century Raffale Fiorini (1828-1898), the leading expert of the Bolognese tradition, worked in Emilia Romagna followed by his son Giuseppe and his students Simone Ferdinando Sacconi, Giuseppe Castagnino, Ansaldo Poggi. Giuseppe Fiorini's students also included Augusto Pollastri followed by his brother Gaetano, master Otello Bignami, Cesare Candi, who then moved to Genova with his brother Oreste, Armando Monterumici, Carlo Carletti and Wolfgang Türcke-Bebie (in Munich and then Zürich).

Carlo Carletti in Pieve di Cento began a family saga of violin makers who were active for the whole of the 20th Century, noticeably Oreste and Natale.

Luigi Soffritti (1860-1896) worked in Ferrara with his son Ettore, alongside Orsolo and Anselmo Gotti, Gaetano Pareschi, Enrico Orselli and Ernesto Pevere. 

Gaetano Sgarabotto (1878-1959) and his son Pietro worked in Parma despite belonging to the Milan school. Raffaele Vaccari and Sesto Rocchi were students of Gaetano.

Marino Capicchioni worked with his son Mario in Rimini while Arturo Fracassi worked in Cesena.

Luigi and Primo Contavalli worked in Imola. Armando Barbieri, Luigi Paganini and his son Giuseppe II worked in Forlì, Nicola Utili in Castelbolognese, Luigi Mingazzi and Pietro Borghi in Ravenna, Mario Bedocchi, Alfredo and Dante Guastalla worked in Reggio Emilia, Romolo Parmeggiani and Armando Piccagliani in Modena.