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

289 LETTERS all the money necessary to collect all the things from the customs. Do send the cocoa to Venice as soon as you can, while I entreat you to save me as much as possible on the transport, and the courier himself should send it to me in Padua free from all expense; so you should make there a whole bundle for the courier and pay him there for everything. Then, with regard to the silk things, may you have the kindness to find some particular and safe opportunity for Ferrara; and before the fourteenth of the following month, you should send it directly to Signor Bernardino Pomatelli 26 on my behalf, because I shall write to him today that he should receive it and send it to me. I beg you to have a saintly patience, and for now I declare and sign myself Your Reverence’s most devoted and obliged servant Padua, 25 March 1741 34. Tartini to Paolo Battista Balbi I find myself needing to write to your Most Illustrious Lordship and notify you of something peculiar and significant. This should entail that either I could come to Bologna or Your Most Illustrious Lordship here. On my part, there is no reason to think about it, and I suspect it is the same on yours, and with more reason, as you are a man of greater importance than a scraper on the violin and hence much more bound by your occupations. In that case I am writing to you to know at least what I can hope for, and how I should conduct myself; in so doing I completely submit to your advice and place myself in your hands entirely, with the certainty of having excellent support, because I have already had the good fortune to verify this at other times. Led on by my fortunate simplicity of thought, infinitely helped by the harmonic science, into which no great man has until now considered immersing himself, although in it alone the key of nature is to be found, I have discovered many phenomena and much physical proof; enlightened by these and led from music into universal physical nature, I have clearly seen the solution to all those difficulties that have hitherto been unsolvable for mathematicians; and these are all the immeasurables made measurable by means of a common measure, be it the diagonals, be it the squaring of the circle, the law of falling bodies, forces, resistance, etc. The nature of the continuous, the nature of centres, and in a word the measure of one as one: something that seems contradictory but which is absolutely true, as we are dealing with demonstrations and physical proof. 26 Maybe the printer Bernardino Pomatelli of Ferrara, active at least until 1754.