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

321 LETTERS in Rome ever again. It seems to me that the two conditions suggested should bring no obstacle with them. Because the first adds nothing more than a slightly higher expense for His Highness in the brother’s return. I believe that His Highness thinks little of thirty or forty ongari after having ascertained from your kindest letter what he assigns me for six concertos. As for second, it presents a thousand nuances; and I believe that when the young man sees with whom he is, and gets accustomed to a greater world, he will change opinion and very well go to Rome with his patron, if there is the need and cause to. Please organise this matter, therefore, with your usual prudence and goodness: whatever you do, it will be done well. I come back to my interests. If His Highness really wishes to reward me with such generosity, I wish to be left free to send him some other new concertos from time to time; and, in particular, those which I shall feel to have turned out less badly for me; and this without any interest whatsoever in expense and reward, given that I have advantage enough in the patronage of His Highness. I must now appeal to the kindness of my Lord Count and Patron that you do me a great favour in the present circumstance. This is to spend twelve or fourteen ongari on canvas for shirts, for the price of roughly half a florin a cubit. The canvas of Silesia is very low, but I know that some is five quarte high (the common one in general is four and a half quarte ). If the other one can be had, it would suit me a lot more; if not, the common one will serve me fine. When it is provided, I would like to have it in Italy, but without shipping expenses. The favour, for which I beg you, depends therefore on a particular contact that can satisfy my requirement. I therefore put myself in your hands and, especially, please forgive this excessive boldness on my part. I submit to you my most obsequious and cordial regards, and I remain as ever My Lord Count Patron and Lord’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Padua, 12 March 1750 68. Tartini to F. Algarotti I have heard with pleasure from your most kind letter of the arrival of the six concertos and their delivery to His Highness the Prince of Lobkowicz. I really supposed the Prince to be there, and therefore, having deduced the consequence that the most generous recognition would pass through your hands, I begged you for the said provision of canvas. However, I am sorry to have been mistaken in this