Chitarrone, Giorgio Iungman, Genoa, 1633, yew, fir, maple, pear, rosewood, ebony. Provenance: purchase - Natale Gallini collection (1957-1958) (inv. n. ST. MUS. n. 222)

Made by the German luthier Giorgio Iungman, active in Genoa in the first half of the 1600s, the chitarrone has lost its original appearance because of the modifications it underwent in the following centuries: the neck has been notably shortened and narrowed and the scroll and bridge substituted. The still original and magnificent body of the instrument is constituted by twenty-three thin wooden ribs and a soundboard skillfully pierced with three rosettes.