Giuseppe Tartini - Lettere e documenti / Pisma in dokumenti / Letters and Documents - Volume / Knjiga / Volume I

67 Interest in Giuseppe Tartini’s epistolary correspondence is not a novelty. Many of his letters, which are scattered in public and private archives across Europe and the United States, have been known to scholars since the end of the 19th century, as prov- en by the article by Attilio Hortis 1 of 1884, 2 the book by La Mara 3 of 1886, with two letters from Tartini to G.B. Martini, 4 and the booklet Per le nobili nozze Tattara Persicini [...], with three Bassano letters. 5 In the late 19th and early 20th century further contributions, concentrating on three groups of letters, were published in two studies of the Venetian and Istrian territory: for the second centennial of the violinist’s birth, Manfredo Tovajera provided the transcription and a brief discussion of five letters pre- served in Rovigo; 6 Pasini published the Rovereto letters concerning the relationship with Giuseppe Valeriano Vannetti; 7 and Ziliotto collected three epistolary documents of the relationship with Gian Rinaldo Carli. 8 In the same years, some Tartini letters from the correspondence with G.B. Martini 9 were included in studies on Martini. 10 Moreover, in the first half of the 20th century, letters preserved in Sweden 11 were made known, while some Bologna letters (in Bc and Baf) were added to a miscellaneous col- lection on subjects relating to music. 12 1 Hortis, 1884. 2 Hortis’s article was published by the journal Archeografo Triestino with the transcription of nine letters preserved in Piran (eight letters to relatives and the famous letter to Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen). 3 La Mara, 1886: pp. 179-181. 4 Martini, Giovanni Battista (1706-1784). Franciscan, musician, composer and music theorist. Cf. Dbi. 5 Bortoli, 1884. 6 The article was published in the journal Veneto Letterario . See Tovajera, 1892: pp. 129-131. 7 The article was published in the journal Pagine Istriane . See Pasini, 1906: pp. 1-13. 8 Also in the journal Pagine istriane . See Ziliotto, 1904: pp. 225-236. Carli, Gian Rinaldo (1720‑1795), Istrian economist and historian. Cf. Dbi. 9 G.B. Martini’s collection of letters preserved in I-Bc consists of roughly 6,000 letters. 10 Parisini, 1888; Busi, 1891. 11 Henneberg, 1928: pp. 131-132. 12 Vatielli, 1917: pp. 44-49; 54-56. Introduction