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

280 not care if it has been seen; these are scores of a student of mine who jealously sent them to me, and I would be sorry if they were published, because the student might suspect that I myself had carried out this mischief. Just so long as that doesn’t happen; for the rest I repeat that I do not care in the slightest. Therefore, for my full peace of mind, and without any imaginable hesitation, please tell me frankly if I should believe Quartieri, to whom I have vehemently complained. But he (a saintly, honest man, as Your Reverence knows) has hitherto written three letters to me, protesting and protesting further, and with the aid of witnesses, that the bundle, delivered to Padre Maestro, was sealed with four seals. May you have the patience to answer me again on this matter, while as ever I profess myself Your Most Reverend Father’s most devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 26 February 1740 26. Tartini to [?] Schuchardt, private secretary of Count Karl von Waldeck at Arolsen 19 I must inform Your Most Illustrious Lordship of what is happening to me with regard to Signor Bernardo, 20 so that you may inform His Most Serene Highness thereof. The latest money, consisting of sixty-four zecchini , was barely enough to pay his debts; and only eight zecchini remain. I informedHis Excellency theMarshal of Schulemburgh 21 thereof, and I begged him to recommend Signor Bernardo to some correspondent of his from Vienna, so that he could be assisted there and received, until the Most Serene Patron provides further money for him to make his journey. But I received the reply that His Excellency did not want any commitment or to write to anybody, and that I should suggest to the young man that, after consigning his belongings to some cart going to Germany, he should set off on the journey on foot. I, in truth, gave this message to 19 Schuchardt was private secretary to Count Karl of Waldeck (1704-1763). 20 Bernardo Scheff (or Schelf) was sent to Padua by the Count of Waldeck to study the violin at Tartini’s school. There is a violin concerto of his in the collection of Italian manuscripts at Berkeley (US BE), where he is indicated as “Bernardo Schelf”. White, 1992: p. 182. 21 Giovanni Mattia von Schulenburg (Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg or Schulenberg) (1661- 1747) was a German soldier, patron and art collector. He distinguished himself in military endeavours in defence of the Serenissima. He spent his old age between Venice and Verona. Vecchiato-Gargano, 2006, pp. 55-157.