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

286 My disdain is such that I strongly beg you to tell the Most Serene Patron what I have already said in the other letter of mine, that is to say that His Most Serene Highness has at his disposal my life, my belongings, if I am worthy of the execution of his most righteous satisfactions, because just as I have loved Signor Bernardo by the grace of his Most Serene Patron, I now hate him and shall continue to hate him, and I shall pursue him in the punishment of his fault without excuses. It is impossible for him to return to Padua again, as I believe that, by now, he knows my intention. Furthermore, by means of reasoning, entreaties and threats from a powerful hand I have destroyed all the protections of those cavalieri that he had bought in Padua, because for four days I have done nothing but walk and act for this goal, in which I have finally succeeded. If he wants to stay in some other place in the Venetian state, I shall have patrons everywhere who will give me their strength and help to have him arrested and banished. And if he stays in Italy in some other state and dominion, I shall always have my eye on him, and I hope that I can undertake with His Most Serene Highness to always let him know where he is. Therefore, as I have hitherto acted, I shall act for the future as an honest man, and as a faithful servant, if His Most Serene Highness shall condescend to test my honesty and my faith. I have a few more clues than I had five days ago, that some marriage arrangement is the reason for his decision, but I am still not entirely certain; and as soon as I am, Your Most Illustrious Lordship shall be notified both of this and of everything that happens, completely faithfully and promptly. I submit my whole self in my most profound respects at the feet of His Most Serene Highness, and submitting to Your Most Illustrious Lordship my most humble regards, as ever I sign myself Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 9 July 1740 31. Tartini to G.B. Martini Our Signor Paolino is coming to Bologna to resolve, I believe, with his own voice, the problem he could not resolve by means of a letter. The truth is that, if no remedy is provided, it is certain that his studies shall suffer, and at this time the young man would be at a much better point than he is at, because true study is the enemy of all annoyance and haste. The young man is very sensitive, and I have witnessed many times that when he is without money and therefore forced to seek a loan from someone, for all this time he either does not study or studies without profit.