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

312 57. Tartini to G.V. Vannetti The fault is not at all Signor Filippo’s, as he promptly had the money delivered to me; but it is all mine, because I did not reply to Your Most Illustrious Lordship and did not declare the receipt to you. My mortification shall suffice as penitence, and it is so great that, imagining that Your Most Illustrious Lordship would send the enclosed letter to Signor Filippo to ask him to account for this money, I have not had and do not have the courage to give it to him; and I shall keep it with me until a new order from you. Please forgive me for this, as the fault was certainly not deliberate: it comes from my being weighed down by too many tasks, which at times causes me to lose memory of my duties. I then thank you as much as I know and can for the full sale of my copies, and I trust I will have the opportunity of showing my debt and gratitude to you. Signor Girolamo is faring well, and I find consolation in having the honour of serving him, just as I glory in the fact of being able to submit myself as ever Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 2 February 1747 58. Tartini to his brother Pietro in Piran [in another hand:] 1747 Letter from Signor Giuseppe Tartini in Padua regarding the Pettener affair Padua, 9 March 1747 I have the consolation of writing to you that the sargentina [military appointment] of Montona remains assigned to your nephew Pietro for the usual period of five years, and that you will soon receive the edict from His Excellency Signor Polo Renier (divine benefactor). In Friuli there are none which are close to being vacated, but this one was assigned as sure and immediate. The same patron has spoken for you to His Excellency Signor Leonardo Loredan about the capitaniato of Barbana. His answer was in no way precise in terms of his having yet decided, for he wanted to verify certain facts first, etc. If the case of substitution were to arise, he promised to alert His Excellency Renier, from whom he obtained and wanted your name. Our debt towards His Excellency is infinite, and it is impossible to compensate in any way, if not by praying to God for