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

310 instructions regarding the changes to be made to the dedication letter. Compliments and most cordial greetings are sent to you by the cavalieri Trento brothers, and if many others knew that I was writing to you, they would do the same. I beg you humbly and confidentially to have the enclosed letter delivered to my dear friend and student Lenheis, 38 as I now have the necessity to write to him immediately to serve him in a need of his. Meanwhile, may Your Most Illustrious Lordship preserve your love for me and your patronage; and to ensure that you may do so gladly, please rest assured that among those who, being infinitely greater than me, can boast of this advantage, I who deserve it less than anyone, but know it as they do or maybe even more so, shall certainly treasure it more; and yet I am and shall always be distinctly as I remain Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 6 October 1746 55. Tartini to F. Algarotti I am replying to Your Most Illustrious Lordship from Venice, where I have asked Signor Maestro Hasse if he has received a commission fromHis Excellency Signor Conte Rutowski 39 to receive and take with him the said case. He answered that he has not yet received any order; but that upon receiving it, and most distinctly from His Excellency, he shall have the honour and duty to carry it out, at the cost of any inconvenience to himself. I shall therefore leave the case here in Venice, so that it is ready to pass into the hands of the Signor Maestro, when he requests it; and I shall return to Padua the day after tomorrow, rich indeed, but of other people’s goods. However, although I shall have to immediately divest myself of the garment which is not mine, no one shall be able to deprive me of the merit of being the first to have shown it in Padua. Should it be that such compositions, such treasures must lie almost hidden? I have with me the letter written by Your Most Illustrious Lordship to our Most Serene, which he himself gave me, as it was forcefully requested of him, in a copy by the hand of his valet. It takes little to learn that I know nothing; and am therefore an incompetent judge. But one should be stupid indeed to fail to recognise that this composition of yours is something divine. The learned shall see therein all its infinite beauties which 38 Antonio Lehneis. See Petrobelli, 1992: p. 53. 39 Frederick Augustus Rutowsky (count, 1702-1764).