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

284 he commands me to do for his servant or against his servant I shall place my very life, my possessions and all I have in this world, while conveying to you my most humble regards, I declare myself Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most devoted and obliged servant Padua, 6 July 1740 29. Tartini to [J. F. Werner?] With double displeasure on my part, I must disturb Your Most Illustrious Lordship again, begging you for the delivery not only of the letter enclosed herewith, which is the reply to a letter from Signor Schuchard received this morning and written on 23 June, but I beg you heartily and with all imaginable care to write a statement to the aforementioned from me, saying that the other letter of mine sent to him two or three days ago was written by me before today, which means before I had received the letter that I received this morning. All of this being more than true and equally important to me, I hope that Your Most Illustrious Lordship will do me this favour. From the letter received this morning I have discovered new deceptions against me by Signor Bernardo with regard to the money that he had sent to him from Vienna. Deliberately, as he did not wish to return to his patron, and to do what he had been plotting, he wrote to his patron that his debts amounted to just forty zecchini , when in fact he knew that they were much higher. His Most Serene Patron sent him sixty-four zecchini , forty for his debts and twenty-four for the journey. Meanwhile, he had said and sworn to me that he had asked for ninety ongari , but I now see the deceit, and Signor Schuchard has clarified all of this for me, and I believe him, and no longer the deceitful Signor Bernardo. I have discovered something more in these days, that is to say a secret wedding engagement, which caused him to do what causes me extreme confusion and what will quite rightly cause his Most Serene Patron resentment. However, it will be impossible for him to return to Padua again, because I think that by now he knows my feelings and my intentions. And in fact, yesterday I spoke to His Excellency the Captain, so that he may assist and help me in all that I shall need to prove to his Most Serene Patron that I am the angriest of all. I have bowed down to Their Excellencies the Nephews of His Excellency the Lord Marshal, and His Excellency the Lord General had kindly promised me to himself speak of this to His Excellency the Captain. But yesterday while I was with the same, and when asked about this, he told me that he did not mention it to him. Meanwhile, I