The Baptistery of SS. Giovanni e Reparata can be regarded as a place of predestination: on 18 February, 1864, during the solemn funeral of his father Michele, who died just fifty years old after a short illness on 23 January, Giovanni Pacini delivered the funeral oration. The mention of relatives overcome with grief could not be missed, and even the claim that a musical dynasty so glorious was destined to be continued, “You, dear brothers, to which the meaning of Christian charity so strongly speaks to the heart, shall well turn a thought to the octogenarian mother [Angela Cerù][Angela Cerù] [Albina Magi]such a desolate bride [Albina Magi], six tender little girls [the sisters Otilia, Tomaide, Nitteti, Iginia, Ramelde and Macrina], to a lad [Giacomo obviously], only surviving heir to that glory [il fratello Michele nascerà il 19 aprile di quello stesso anno][his brother Michele was to be born on 19 April of that year], which his ancestors well deserved in this harmonic art, and that maybe he one day can revive”.