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

298 as a sample, to see if I too have these sonatas, which you have printed, among those which I possess of the same Author, which are many. Should I not have them, I would perhaps ask you to send me six copies thereof, paying the total sum through the above- mentioned gentlemen. Meanwhile, while waiting for a reply, I am totally at your disposal and am always Rovereto in Tyrol, 5 April 1744 [note in another hand:] This letter was written to the heirs of Michel Charle le Cene in Amsterdam. It left from here on 5 April through Germany, enclosed in another letter addressed to the gentlemen Raymondo and Teodoro de Smeth and Hurter of Amsterdam. And the reply returned on 5 May. 43. Tartini to [Silvestri?] In extreme cases, one resorts to patrons with a heart and mind. In the hands of Fattori of Casa Bonacosa, at the Ferrarese borders, at Selva di Crespino, there are two bags. In one of them there are three warmers, in the other there is a piece of very fine canvas of roughly sixty cubits, two hats, and a small bundle of waxed canvas, which contains ten cubits of sequin fromFlorence. All of this was sent there by Signora Contessa Lolli, who didn’t know how to, or couldn’t, do otherwise after three months and more that it was in her hands to be sent to Padua, or at least to the Venetian State. The canvas, the hats and the sequin are ordered by me, but from my account the only one is the sequin, which however is more delicate than the rest. Signor Conte Decio Trento, 29 to whom the canvas belongs, Signor Francesco his brother, and Signor Cavaliere Bortolo Selvatico, to whom the hats belong, have given me the task of carrying out the operation and getting these things to arrive here in Padua. I, who clearly owe everything to Signor Conte Decio, have promised him to do whatever is possible, without telling him how. I have the liberty to spend whatever is necessary to this effect and I have a true concern to serve the patron. Here, then, my need and concern are submitted to Your Most Illustrious Lordship, who is the only one I can rely on, both for the infinite kindness that you show me and for a cautious management of the matter. I know full well that my pleading is extremely bold and would deserve a punishment rather than a reward. May Your Most Illustrious Lordship pity, just for this time, my commitment, which 29 Count Decio Agostino Trento was a music amateur and studied with Tartini. He financed the printing of the Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell’armonia in 1754.