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

279 LETTERS prompt remedy and one that will require no further need to think on the matter. I send my most humble and most cordial respects and remain as ever Your Reverence’s most devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 15 December 1739 25. Tartini to G.B. Martini We have promptly received here, from Padre Maestro Mandelli the equivalent of eight zecchini in sixteen filippi : and this method will be excellent for the future with no further problems, so long as it is continued from month to month, as I desire for the peace of mind and good routine of the young man. He has hitherto been faring better in counterpoint than in the violin: while in the former he moves rapidly, in the latter he proceeds slowly. Let it be said between us with our confidentiality: that it is all a consequence of the little, or better said, no study that is now devoted to the bow; therefore, I reasonably fear that I shall have to struggle to straighten him out, for without the required conditions of bowing nothing good is achieved in my school. I have straightened out some who were more crippled than him, so I do not despair; it’s just that I see I shall not achieve this as soon as I believed. On the other hand, he does not fear fatigue and does his duty very willingly, and this is a sign that allows me to anticipate good results. I will now undo what I did: Your Reverence should no longer wait for the cocoa. In Livorno it is worth the same as in Venice, so I gain no advantage there, and I shall arrange for it here. Your Reverence should have the kindness to have patience with me regarding what I am about to tell you about the said scores of my student from Rome, 18 which ended up in your hands. These were sent, sealed with four seals, to Signor Antonio Quartieri, and he delivered them, in the same condition, to Signor Don Francesco Benzoni, a friend of yours, for him to give to Padre Maestro Baldazzi, who was coming there, as he promptly did the same day. Padre Maestro Baldazzi will have taken them to Your Reverence in Bologna; he is not a music lover, so he should have naturally delivered them to Your Reverence in the same condition as they had been delivered to him. Do me the kindness without any regard, of telling me how it is, or how this fact can be, so that in essence I know, as nothing else matters to me but that the said material has not been copied. I do 18 Pasqualino Bini. See Viverit, 2004: pp. 24-25.