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

335 LETTERS great that he is fully aware of the secret that is shared between Your Reverence, Signor Dottor Balbi and myself. You can therefore discuss it with him openly with the same safety with which we treat the interest among ourselves. I have told you everything, and from that you may understand the extent to which I care for this gentleman. Therefore, I ask Your Reverence to think seriously about the need, as with regard to the said person I do not plead, but rather request. My proposition is bold indeed, but in the present case I would do the same with the first monarch in the world, if I had enough confidence to be able to write to him. It is then up to you to endure the proposition and accept it. I am sure, moreover, that you will be quite glad of this, and that in treating this gentleman in confidence you will in fact find that he brings with him the most forceful recommendations for whoever gets to know him. I have received your last letter, which consoled me in one respect, but in another (which is my Treatise) I confess to you that I have some necessary reason to wish for the examination to be completed with a little more haste. I am sorry that my need upsets our Signor Dottor Balbi and inconveniences him; but in the end I am quite sure that he himself will be pleased to have sacrificed some inconvenience of his on this matter. I convey my respects to him, as I do to Your Reverence, and as ever I remain Your Reverence’s most devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 24 August 1751 80. From G.B. Martini to Tartini When, together with Signor Dottor Balbi, we were thinking of sending some specific opinion of ours on your erudite treatise, I could not avoid asking you for some clarifications necessary for the full understanding of the difficult topic which Your Most Illustrious Lordship has undertaken to deal with, having deemed this to be a lesser inconvenience for you than the one deriving from an opinion full of discord and reservations, as it would have been without the prior explanations that I beg of you in the enclosed sheet. Which is what I need in order to fully obey you, while I am Bologna, 28 September 1751 For geometers obtaining the squaring of the circle means finding a rectilinear figure which it is demonstrated to be equal to the given circle. Until now it has not been possible to obtain such a demonstration, indeed there are many geometers that