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

282 a scruple, not only do I give notice of the matter to Your Illustrious Lordship, so that you may read this letter of mine to His Excellency our patron, but I furthermore beg you to send, with the greatest urgency, the hereby enclosed letter to the lord secretary of His Highness of Waldek [sic], to whom I give news of everything that is happening here to me. I have had many students of different religions without anything in the slightest ever happening to me, because I am relatively familiar with the ways of the world. Now, fate wishes it that for this reason I must have the greatest disturbance I have had in my lifetime. For my part, I believe the reason for this fervour in Signor Bernardo is either half desperation, with him believing (wrongly) that he has been all but abandoned by his patron, or some secret marriage agreement. But I can say nothing for certain, as to this day I know nothing more than this. Meanwhile, may His Excellency learn, not in my defence, but as true proof of my correctness and of the truth, which I write to you and which is public in Padua, that is to say, that if Signor Bernardo is received at S. Antonio, the very same day I shall depart from Padua never to return again. May His Excellency condescend to give me some advice on what further I must do, while I am myself so confused and stunned that I no longer know where I am nor what is happening to me, while conveying to you my most humble regards, as ever I sign myself Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most devoted and obliged servant Padua, 6 July 1740 28. Tartini to Johann Friedrich Werner 22 Out of an obligation of correctness and of debt towards His Reigning Highness, I must inform Your Most Illustrious Lordship, so that you immediately inform the Most Serene Patron that Signor Bernardo is either about to pass or has passed, by now, to our religion. As he knew for sure that I would oppose him with all my force, he has entrusted himself to religious persons, and precisely to a Paduan cavaliere , who has taken upon himself to protect him in such a way that he has managed to have him received in the service of the same chapel of S. Antonio where I am. In this way I discovered that he is either about to change, or has already changed religion, and as soon as I discovered as much, I immediately went to protest to those who govern this chapel of ours that at the same hour and moment in which they receive Signor Bernardo in the chapel, I shall 22 J.F. Werner was secretary to Giovanni Mattia von Schulenburg in Venice; see preceding note.