Editing Amati (section)

==In popular culture==
* [[Patrick O'Brian]]'s fictional British sea captain [[Jack Aubrey]] is described as owning a "fiddle far above his station, an Amati no less", in ''[[The Surgeon's Mate]].'' In the ''[[Wine-Dark Sea]]'', book fifteen of the series, [[Stephen Maturin]] now has a Girolamo Amati and Aubrey a [[Guarneri]].
* In [[Satyajit Ray]]'s short story ''Bosepukure Khoonkharapi'', the fictional detective [[Feluda]] deduces that a character was murdered because he owned an Amati 
[[violin]].
* In the [[manga]] and [[anime]] series ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'', [[Henrietta (Gunslinger)|Henrietta]] carries an Amati violin case. It contains a [[FN P90|Fabrique Nationale P90]] when on a mission, otherwise it contains a real violin.
* On the radio show, ''[[Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar]]'', the January 1956 episode "The Ricardo Amerigo Matter" centered on a stolen Amati violin.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/OTRR_YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar_Singles | title=Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar – Single Episodes: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter | access-date=31 October 2017}}</ref>
* In the 2022 [[Cormac McCarthy]] novels, ''[[The Passenger (McCarthy novel)|The Passenger]]'' and ''[[Stella Maris (novel)|Stella Maris]]'', Alicia Western purchases an Amati violin for more than $200,000 while she is in her mid- to late teens, paying in cash from money she inherited. In ''[[Stella Maris (novel)|Stella Maris]]'', she relates this to her psychiatrist while in a psychiatric hospital, describing the details of the purchase and some history of the Amati instruments. McCarthy, C., ''[[The Passenger (McCarthy novel)|The Passenger]]'' and ''[[Stella Maris (novel)|Stella Maris]]'', New York: Knopf (2022).