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

78 sor of astronomy and physics at the University of Padua, was to revise and publish af- ter his death. 56 In The Present State of Music in Italy and France Charles Burney speaks about a work “of which, though chiefly mathematical, the theory of sound makes a considerable part”. 57 Fanzago also refers to a series of Tartini correspondences which mostly remain to be investigated: “ […] he was acquainted, and corresponded, with a Count Lodovico Barbieri, 58 with Ricati, with [François] Jacquier, 59 with Dalembert, 60 with de la Land, 61 with Marquis Beccheria, 62 with the Abbé [Jean Antoine] Nollet, 63 with the most famous Euler, 64 and with many other erudite figures”. 65 University of Padua. Cf. A. De Ferrari, “Colombo, Giovanni Alberto”, in Dbi. 56 The text in question was lost, cf. Guanti-Piras, 2003: pp. 53-54. 57 Burney, The Present State of Music in Italy and France , London, T. Becket and Co., 1771: pp. 124. 58 Barbieri, Ludovico (1719-1791). He was born in Vicenza, son of Count Ottavio and the noble- woman Laura Grassi. After his father died, his uncle, Count Giandomenico Barbieri, became his guardian. At the age of ten, he was sent to Padua, where he remained until he was twenty-three, devoting himself first to the studies of grammar and rhetoric, then to philosophy under the guidance of Alberto Calza and Giovanni Graziani; he subsequently took an interest with erudite fervour also in literature, medicine and physics. See V. Cappelletti, “Barbieri, Ludovico”, in Dbi. 59 Jacquier, François (1711-1788). He was a French Franciscan mathematician and physicist. He entered the order of the Friars Minor at sixteen and was then sent to Rome to complete his studies in the French convent of the order. He was appointed to the chair of sacred scriptures at Marseille. The King of Sardinia appointed him professor of physics at the University of Turin in 1745 and Cardinal Valenti, prime minister of Benedict XIV, assigned to him the chair of experimental physics at the Roman College. In 1763 he became the instructor in physics and mathematics for Prince Ferdinand of Parma. In 1773 he obtained the chair of mathematics at the Roman College. Cf. Galluzzi, 1971. 60 Alembert, Jean Baptiste Le Rond d’ (known as d’A.) (1717-1783), French physicist, mathematician and philosopher. C. Motzo Dentice di Accadia, R. Marcolongo, E. Fermi, “Alembert, Jean Baptiste Le Rond d’ ”, in Enciclopedia Italiana online , Treccani (http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/jean-baptiste-le- rond-detto-d-a-alembert/, consulted on 6/09/2019). 61 Lalande, Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançois de (1732-1807), an astronomer and professor at the College of France, director of the Paris observatory. L. Gabba, “Lalande, Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançois de”, in Enciclopedia Italiana online , Treccani (http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/joseph-jerome-le-francais-de-lalande/, con- sulted on 6/09/2019). 62 The Beccaria to whom Fanzago probably refers is Giambatista (born as Francesco Ludovico, 1716‑1781), an Italian monk, physicist and mathematician, A. Pace, “Beccaria, Giambatista”, in Dbi. 63 Nollet, Jean Antoine (known as Abbé Nollet, 1700-1770), a physicist and priest, professor of phys- ics in Paris, in Turin, in Bordeaux, at the Collège de Navarre. He was one of the first systematic devotees of experimental physics in France. Member of the Académie des sciences of Paris and of the Royal Society of London. “Nollet, Jean-Antoine”, in Enciclopedia Italiana online, Treccani (http://www.treccani.it/enciclo- pedia/jean-antoine-nollet/, consulted on 6/09/2019). 64 Euler, Leonhard (known in Italy as Eulero, 1707-1783) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist. His epistolary exchange with Tartini is preserved in Padua (Musical Archive of the Cappella Antoniana Ms. D. VI. 1894/4, fols. 16-17). 65 Fanzago, 1770: p. 26.