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

329 LETTERS the most humble and devoted servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 9 February 1751 73. Tartini to G.B. Martini Who would have ever believed that Your Reverence, the most esteemed Signor Dottor Balbi and I should meet for the most interesting of things that can be debated among men? This is the situation in words, and Your Reverence shall soon experience it first-hand. Meanwhile I thank you in regard to this matter for the interest you are taking, and for your most excellent disposition to favour me. What matters now is that I discover through you, and find out with urgency, when our most loved and most esteemed Signor Dottor Balbi can assist me. I absolutely intend that when this happens I shall immediately send the treatise 48 there to be examined. Furthermore, to recommend secrecy from both of you will be entirely superfluous when the treatise (not voluminous, but difficult per se ) is in your hands, for you shall see for yourselves the importance, and the consequence of secrecy. Together with Signor Don Antonio, I convey to you our most cordial regards, as I do to Signor Dottor Balbi, and I declare myself, as I truly am Your Reverence’s most humble, most devoted and most obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 2 April 1751 74. Tartini to P.B. Balbi In this situation I am receiving from Your Most Illustrious Lordship the greatest grace that can be given to me by a living man; and I assure you not as a gentleman, but as a Christian, that I shall have eternal gratitude for this, both in this world, praying to God for you, and in the other better one too, hoping that God’s mercy will save me. In the examination of this proposition, which amounts to a treatise, 48 The text can be identified as the unpublished manuscript Quadratura del circolo . See Pucer, 1993: p. 110.