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

271 LETTERS 12. Tartini to G.B. Martini I did not want to reply to Your Reverence until after receiving the known oratorio, for which both I and those who are involved in it thank you most fervently and distinctly. Please direct me as to whether I have to send you the index by mail, or together with the oratorio when it is sent back to you, and this to avoid causing you any expense whatsoever. If you have incurred any expense in sending the oratorio, please be so kind as to write and let me know, as this is truly necessary. For the moment I shall say no more and shall write you a longer letter in another post, as today I am in too much haste, while reverently kissing your hands as always, I declare myself Your Most Reverend Father’s most devoted obliged and affectionate servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 12 February 1737 13. Tartini to G.B. Martini I have received, in your dearest letter to me, the instructions of the Most Illustrious Signor Conte Cornelio Pepoli: 15 instructions too precious, for my fortune and my honour. Therefore it is not necessary to discuss whether I should obey or not, as it is taken for granted. However, there is much to discuss about the way and the time. I shall have to teach nine students this year: this absolutely confuses me, because when I had four or five of them, I was the busiest man in the world. They come, or better said, they have come for the most part, insalutato ospite , and from quite far away, so that they cannot be sent back home, and they are servants of princes. I shall do as much as I can to fulfil my duty, but I am sure I shall not be able to do so, as there are too many of them. Therefore, adding more of them at present would be bad for me, and worse for those who come here. Having admitted this, which is unfortunately true, if it does not displease his Most Illustrious Signor Conte Cornelio, it would be more than well done to postpone until some of those who have already come leave a space, which will be in roughly seven or eight months. On this matter, I shall await his commands, which I am, moreover, ready to obey in every way. I am then waiting for the package of cocoa, just as Truffaldino awaits the cheese on his macaroni. I entreat you on this subject and shall say no more. Then, with regard 15 Bolognese writer (1708-1777). See, for example, Fantuzzi, 1784: p. 367.