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

328 than he has ever had in any of his affairs. He is extremely interested in this enterprise, and that should be enough for you. You will therefore be left with an impatience to receive the proposition, which for the present I wish to conceal from you, and I will be no less impatient to receive your reply. I remain and declare myself to be My Lord Count Patron and Lord’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 12 November 1750 If you wish to write to the Most Serene Doge about this matter, remember to proffer your condolences for the death of his brother Signor Giorgio, which occurred in Fiesso on the night of the eighth day of this month. 72. Tartini to F. Algarotti [note written in another hand: To Count Francesco Algarotti in Berlin] Firstly, I thank you for the readiness shown in favouring me: convinced that the objections advanced derive from this principle. But just as the backing, and actually the command of the sovereign was inseparable from the examination (it is easy to understand that with regard to learned men, the more learned they are, the less they are willing to condescend to learn something new, and in such cases there is no other way, if not by force), so, seeing that his Most Serene Highness is mistaken in supposing easy what you say to me to be difficult and almost impossible (namely the backing of the sovereign), one shall aim in another direction. Secondly, I confirm to you that it was the authority of the sovereign, and not his money, that was sought; and if you take the trouble to reflect seriously on the nature of the matter, you shall see that this point of view has a different weight than any objection which can be raised against it. Moreover, I confess my error. And it consists in not having sufficiently understood the project of his Most Serene Highness founded solely on this basis. So much so did I not understand it that I told you to put forward the examination independently of the sovereign; and with the proposition being found to be true, in that case to inform him of the discovery. So I wrote to you, but I erred greatly. For me this is not bad; and indeed I hope it can be converted to a greater good. Meanwhile, my obligations towards you continue to grow. I am grateful to you, and any trial will show myself as such in the greatest degree. I submit to you my most humble regards, and I remain as ever, of the Lord Count, my Most Venerable Lord,