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

307 LETTERS due to his kindness, with my concerns. What I intend to do in due time to fulfil my obligation, is such a thing, and of such a nature, that Your Most Illustrious Lordship can neither be offended by it, nor dislike it. Grant me then the liberty to do so, while with all my respect I bow to you and remain as ever Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Padua, 6 January 1746 52. Tartini to his brother Pietro in Piran Padua, 14 February 1746 You will receive two letters of mine, one written yesterday and sent open from the outset (and with all your package and letter) to His Excellency Signor Polo Renier, 34 by whom it shall be sent on to you. The other one I am writing to you today and you shall receive by means of Signor Don Saetta, to whom I entrust it. I shall confirm in this second letter what I wrote yesterday, that is to say, that it is up to you to authenticate the statement of Pettener, if however he has expressed it in any way offensive to Ca’ Grimani. Because if Pettener by right were to purchase your possessions, he could sell them, and Ca’ Grimani 35 could buy them; nor is there anything wrong in that. If he has then expounded it in such a way as to offend the most excellent house, you must prove it, and you will have a great advantage. But beware of deceptions. I shall come to the meat of the matter. I cannot know if you are wrong or right: you must know this better than all of us. If you are in the right, you shall find in Venice, prepared for your defence, the most illustrious Signor Carlo Terzi, and perhaps the most illustrious Cordellina, whom today I shall have written to, and you shall find them for free: with the sole condition that you should show, towards the same, year after year, those signs of gratitude and duty which such a service entails, with specialties from Istria: fish and wine, bottarga, and similar things. But you shall have to come personally to Venice, neither others for you; nor should you further delude yourselves otherwise with regard to any conceivable reliance you make on me for money. I currently have a capital of one thousand five hundred ducats blocked in a chest behind the door of my house, in many prints, which 34 Paolo Renier (1710-1789). See V. Mandelli, “Renier, Paolo”, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani : vol. 86, pp. 830-833. 35 A rich Venetian family. See G. Gullino, “Grimani, Pietro”, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani: vol. 59, pp. 653-657.