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

315 LETTERS 60. Tartini to G.V. Vannetti I will not neglect to do my duty to Your Most Illustrious Lordship on the return of Signor Girolamo, whom I have had the honour of serving and who on his part has reciprocated the care with which I have served him. He is sound of heart and mind, and if he could continue to study for some more time, he is certain to achieve excellent results. Meanwhile, I renew to Your Most Illustrious Lordship the sincere and grateful declaration of my infinite obligations, and I beg you as ever to give me the chance to prove to you with facts that I am, and always shall be, as now with all my deference I profess myself Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 2 July 1747 61. Tartini to G.V. Vannetti I have received Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s favour of the lemons received from Verona. I am sorry that my letter written to Signor Sichart did not arrive in time to withdraw the request made for this reason by me to Signor Girolamo, as I had finally received the provision, for which I had begged Signor Sichart, and which indeed arrived very late. I am equally sorry, both on one side and the other, to hear that word “gift”, which forever blocks my access to new requests, which I may need for other necessary things. I am already aware, on the one hand, of Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s benevolence, as is already known to me from one thousand occasions, and hence my obligations are infinite. But on the other hand, I assure Your Most Illustrious Lordship, with all truth and frankness of soul, that such things trouble me and run counter to my way of thinking and acting; and I had openly declared to Signor Girolamo that if he did not send me the bill (small as it may be) he was not to send me the lemons. I suggested the same to Signor Federico Sichart, but to no avail either with one or the other. Nonetheless, I shall have to compensate the others in some way, but against Your Most Illustrious Lordship I lose the argument in every way, because you have never deigned, nor do you now deign, to give me any command, for which at least acknowledge my gratitude, and the truth of my declaration is that I am, as ever,