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According to a few paper documents and the two copper and silver medals, Rocca won prizes in his craft at a national arts and crafts exhibitions in 1844 and 1846. It's written: ‘Rocca
Giuseppe violin maker, gives notice to gentlemen amateurs and professors of music that after exhaustive experiments,
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His parents were Maria Teresa and
Giovanni Battista Rocca. He was educated and served in the military and soon after married Anna Maria Calizzano. At the time, Rocca was a baker. The circumstances are unknown what brought him, in a few years, to take up an apprenticeship in Giovanni Francesco
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By 1834, his wife died and he moved to Turin to pursue his craft. It was during this time that he became acquainted with Luigi
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He remarried. His second wife, Caterina Barone died in 1842. Rocca remarried a third time to
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He married a fourth time and was widowed. He earned a reputation as a drunk and his production became inconsistent in quality. In 1856, Rocca married a fifth time to
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