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

278 23. Tartini to G.B. Martini From Padre Maestro Cesarotti 16 I have received the hat box with the two hats and scores inside; 17 for which I infinitely thank Your Reverence, as I have thanked the aforementioned Padre Maestro Cesarotti. Please be so good as to write to me, if you are content with the fact that I pay the money into the hands of our Signor Paolino, who does what he must, though with much effort and patience in these beginnings; furthermore, please condescend to write to me telling me from whom he received the aforementioned scores and if they were loose as I found them in the hat box. I beg you for this information, as it is necessary to avoid any confusion which may ensue were I not to know everything. May you preserve your love for me and your patronage, [but] do not expect any more cocoa, for I take it for certain that it will no longer come; and expressing to you my ever greater esteem and worship, as well as my obligations, I remain Your Reverence’s most devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 3 December 1739 24. Tartini to G.B. Martini I feel it necessary to inform Your Reverence of the beginning of a problem occurring in relation to Signor Paolino. This is a lack of money for his board and lodgings, which here just as everywhere must be paid in advance. I am not talking about things concerning the school, but I am talking about things concerning his board. I have ascertained this in other students, and I can tell you very definitely that lack of money is a main impediment to study. It is absolutely necessary that from month to month the payment of what he needs is made in advance, otherwise everything will go badly for him. And this is as certain as the fact that the young man is already beginning to feel uneasy. I inform Your Reverence with confidence, so that in your wisdom you can find a 16 This is almost certainly Padre Giovanni Paolo Cesarotti, Warden Father of S. Antonio in Padua in 1736. See note 23 in Viverit, 2004: p. 24 and Boscolo – Pietribiasi, 1997: p. 249. 17 Some scores by Pasqualino Bini, a student of Tartini’s between 1731 and 1734. On this matter, see Viverit, 2004: pp. 24-25.