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

254 Nor should you think I am telling you these things either as a madman or as a fanatic. Everything is in your hands, my dear brother, as long as we do not turn our hearts against God, and I assure you of this upon my soul; nor should you believe that I, who love you all more than I love myself, wish to betray you. No, I am telling you the truth, and may this rather be of consolation to you in all the trials that await you, in which you should be strong and not allow yourself to become discouraged, so that you may live for the good times after having endured so many bad times; but turn to God, you and everybody. Greet everyone in the household for me, while embracing you most cordially I remain, Your most affectionate brother Giuseppe Tartini 4. Tartini to his brother Domenico in Piran Padua, 10 November 1726 I have been a little late in answering your very dear letter, having been out in the countryside. But I was there for a second intention of mine, perhaps not fruitless with regard to our interests. I have been in Str on the Brenta river at the house of the Most Excellent Signor Michiel Morosini 4 of Santo Stefano, a gentleman renowned not so much for his family, but for his qualities and for his power in Venice, since he is one of the four Principali , who presently have everything they want in the Dominante [Venice]. I have spoken to him about your interest, and he has shown himself ready to do everything possible for us. He has even said that having full control over the tax matters of the Magistrato al Sal , he will be able to do a lot more. Here then is the providence of God always ready, for when one support is missing it provides a better one. The most excellent Signor Angelo Maria Priuli 5 is dead, and in his place it seems that God wants to give us a protector with more force and with better and more resolute will. Do not doubt that I will be continuously at his heels, but in the meantime it would be very well done if our brother Don Pietro were to write a draft divided into short chapters, which explains the whole situation and all that which it is good to ask the tax officer in our assistance; and said draft, which you must send to me immediately here in Padua, I shall cause to end up in the hands of this cavaliere , so that he is basically informed of the situation and can explain his point of view with the tax officer, because once he is 4 The Morosinis are a patrician Venetian family that has been active in public life since the 11th century. See Dizionario Storico-Portatile Di Tutte Le Venete Patrizie Famiglie : p. 111. 5 The Priulis were a noble Venetian family. Schroeder, 1780: pp. 174-177.