ERNESTO CAMILLO

SIVORI (1815-1894)  , Italian violinist, was born at Genoa on the 25th of October 1815, and was taught by Restano, Paganini, Costa and Dellepiane . His talent was extraordinarily precocious . From 1827 Sivori began the career of a travelling virtuoso, which lasted almost without interruption until 1864 . He played Mendelssohn's concerto for the first time in England, in 1846, and was in England again in the seasons of 1851 and 1864 . He lived for many years in Paris, and died at Genoa on the 18th of February 1894 . SIVRI-HISSAR, " Pointed-Castle," a town of Asia Minor, in the Angora vilayet, situated 8 m . N. of the site of Pessinus, at the foot of a lofty double-peaked ridge of rock, which bears the ruins of a Byzantine castle . It is a road and commercial centre, with a trade in opium and mohair . The population includes a large Armenian community . The town occupies the site of ancient Palia, re-founded and re-named Justinianopolis by theemperor Justinian . It was one of the chain of fortresses on the Byzantine military road across Asia Minor, and became the chief city of Galatia Salutaris about A.D .