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

324 70. Tartini to F. Algarotti I have received your most kind letter, which was greatly desired by both our Abate Bressani 47 and myself, to have news of you and of your situation. Now we are both glad, and Bressani hopes, from day to day, to receive with a letter of yours, both your precise judgement on his dissertation on the vacuum and some new creation of yours, as you mention in this last letter. I have nothing more to tell you, if not to thank you untiringly, because you deign to love me and to favour me. Should there not be the good fortune of some particular occasion that can save me the postage expenses, my need is such anyway that I must beg you to address the aforementioned by means of transport, whatever the cost may be. May you therefore graciously do me this great favour, and I ask you again to excuse and forgive me for having taken such a liberty with you. Direct it to Signor Sartori, into whose hands I shall pay the cost of the canvas and the transport. Continue bestowing upon me your love and patronage, and submitting to you with my most reverent respects, as ever I remain My Lord Count Patron and Lord’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Padua, 13 August 1750 Giuseppe Tartini 71. Tartini to F. Algarotti It would be difficult to find, over the many centuries, a literary matter of the same importance as the one about which I am now writing to my Lord Count and Patron. That you must receive it and that I must place it in your hands is the desire and command of our Most Serene Doge, with whom this matter was privately discussed last week in Fiesso, where he is now residing. He has frequently mentioned your most worthy person with great respect and is pleased to take the present opportunity to inform you of the highest estimation he has of you concerning the singular gifts of your mind and spirit. This should be sufficient for you to consent to meet the expectations of the Most Serene Doge, about whose intentions and feelings I am here writing to you. But the request acquires boundless force if I add that, on the advice of the Most Serene 47 Abate Gregorio Bressani (1703-1771), a man of letters from Treviso, was at the court of Berlin with Algarotti. See Cantù, 1854: p. 235 and Algarotti, 1784: p. 67.