ANTONIO, a celebrated violinist, was born at Bergamo, in the N. of Italy, in 1728, according to some authorities; or in 1733, according to his pupil, Michel Woldemar. He appears to have been a self-taught violinist. About 1760 he travelled in the Netherlands and in Holland, and went thence into Germany. He visited St Petersburg in 1773, and Paris in 1789, where his extraordinary command of the violin excited much attention. He performed in London in 1785, where he was considered as a madman, but soon returned to Italy. After appearing at Berlin, Copenhagen, and Vienna, he visited Palermo in 1793, and Naples in 1796. He died at Palermo in 1802. The conquest of difficulties seems to have been his chief ambition, and he is said to have had no feeling for measure in his playing. Besides his sonatas and concertos, he published a *School for the Violin*, with accompaniments for a second violin, viola, and bass. Lilli, like some other violinists of his time, often altered the tuning of his violin in order to execute certain passages, or to obtain particular effects. Some writers, unacquainted with the compositions of Lilli and other violinists of the last century, have wrongly ascribed to Paganini alone the artifice of altering the tuning of the violin for purposes of effect, or of execution.