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

285 LETTERS shall be waiting for orders from his Most Serene Patron on what to say or do, resolved to give my very life to obey him were it necessary, while conveying to you my most humble regards, as ever I declare myself Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 9 July 1740 30. Tartini to [?] Schuchardt From the letter written by Your Most Illustrious Lordship I now fully discover all the deceptions carried out by Signor Bernardo against his Most Serene Patron and his poor teacher. He always told me that he had sought from his Most Serene Patron ninety ongari , and not forty zecchini , as Your Most Illustrious Lordship writes to me, and I believe you, not him. But he did it to trick me, as I wished that he should immediately leave to return there after receiving the money; and since I could not force him, he had an amount of money sent to him that could not really suffice for his journey, after paying all his debts, which amounted to roughly fifty-six zecchini . And it is indeed true that his was a deception, as he did not want to receive from me the money he needed for his journey, which I would have given him more than gladly. And so, I have now discovered everything, and assuming Your Most Illustrious Lordship will have already received the other letter of mine, in which I gave you news of what I have discovered with regard to his change of religion, and of what it was proposed to do here in Padua in the same chapel where I serve, and in front of my face, I shall now tell you something more, that as my Lord General Enhausen, nephew of His Excellency Schulenburgh, was in Padua the other day, I strongly and forcefully entreated the aforementioned that he would help me before those who govern the city of Padua, so that help and strength are given to me to have Signor Bernardo arrested, wherever he is, provided that he is in the Venetian state or that he comes here once. From what I have hitherto been able to discover he is still in Mantua, and I have informed the Lord General thereof, who has promised me that if he can get his hands on him, he shall himself escort him and place him in the hands of his Most Serene Patron. It is impossible for Your Most Illustrious Lordship to sufficiently conceive my displeasure and my disdain concerning this case; and even more so as I was almost proud of having turned Signor Bernardo into one of the best players that one can hear, and I particularly congratulated myself on having served his Most Serene Patron well.