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

84 in 1735. It seems unlikely that in this last case they would have managed to render normal service in the chapel. 92 The supplication, dated 1732, of the cellist Giuseppe Dall’Oglio, who asks for permission to “play without payment with robe in the sing- ing gallery […] especially at those functions in which Don Antonio Vandini was at times unable to take part”, 93 confirms a certain regularity in the absences of the first cellist of S. Antonio. Possibly, therefore, some supplications may have gone miss- ing or, as I believe, Antonio Vandini also received special treatment that exempted him from certain duties. There is also a letter from Vandini to Martini mentioning Tartini’s intention to go to Bologna and perhaps continue the journey to Pesaro in his friend’s company: 94 […] I entreat you to tell Padre Musiani, my Patron, to tell Signor Ambrogio that I shall be in Bologna only on the 11th or 12th, as I shall not leave until after the 7th of the next feast day of Santa Giustina 95 , as the service in Pesaro is not until the 20th, if we should go there, because I fear that Signor Tartini will not want to go there in person as he is more than busy; according to what he writes, he will be in Bologna on the 7th […] Tartini himself, in another letter 96 to Martini, alludes to a visit to Bologna: [...] Remind him of the rosolio for my wife, namely that made by Sabadino Fioresi. I bought there, during my visit, some of that made by Zamboni, but he makes it too strong. [...] Tartini might therefore have travelled a lot more than has been conjectured hitherto, especially during the first stage of his career, at least until 1740. While it is likely that the years between his return from Ancona and his departure for Prague were his most active and busiest, it is nonetheless arbitrary to attribute all his movements to that brief period. On the strength of the chronology of the letters between Martini and the two musicians of S. Antonio, it is possible that Tartini went to Bologna in the years from 1726 to 1730, met Padre Martini personally there, and subsequently started to correspond with him. On the other hand, it is also likely that the close connection to the Franciscan or- der played a role in the friendship and professional relationship between the two. Many are the shared acquaintances in the Franciscan environment, although it is impossible to comprehend their details. In the Tartini correspondence the letters to Martini are, excluding those to his relatives, the oldest. Epistolary contacts between Martini and the 92 For the 18th-century ordinances containing the duties of the musicians of the Antonine chapel, see Dalla Vecchia, 1995: pp. 31-36. 93 Boscolo-Pietribiasi: 1997: p. 141. 94 I-Bc, n.d., S5550. 95 The feast day of Santa Giustina of Padua is 7 October. 96 Letter 10.