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

341 LETTERS 85. Tartini to G.B. Martini I thought it better to avoid wasting time in waiting for the reply to my last letter, and with good reason, as I am almost certain (because of the research I carried out) that the letter of mine, written to Your Reverence on 8 October, containing the explanation pertaining to the seven sections of research submitted to me in the letter of yours which was delivered to me by Signor Don Antonio, has gone amiss. The devil shall do everything in his power to stop this matter from progressing, as it belongs to God’s greatest glory, but he shall not succeed. Here again, then, is the requested explanation to the seven aforementioned chapters, of which I am sending you a true copy, transcribed ad litteram from your original, which was included in my lost letter, but which I had copied for myself. If, then, also my second letter has gone missing, in which I gave you an answer about the notice given to me by you about the knowledge that was already had about these other sounds, etc. etc., since this pertains more to erudition than to the substance of the matter, I will not take the trouble to write to you again what I wrote until I receive a letter of yours, which assures me of the loss of my second letter, as well as of the first one. I tell you again that, as I in the study of this science (a study of many years) have experienced supernatural things, now that this matter is being treated conclusively, so Your Reverence and the most revered Signor Dottor Balbi and I shall experience some other ones. But God will assist us, and we shall reach a good conclusion. Faith then in the Lord for whatever may be needed, as what is being treated is not my own work (I am a dunce and a sinner); it belongs to God, who infirma mundi eligit, ut fortia confundat . Please immediately confirm the receipt of the present letter, while submitting to Your Reverence and to the Most Illustrious Signor Dottor Balbi my most deferential regards, I remain ever more, Your Reverence’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 19 November 1751 Turn the page, as it is better to make up for lost time. In my reply to the notice given to me of these other tones being known etc.: I thanked you warmly (as I do again) for the cordial care in the rigorous examination of my treatise, attentive not only to the substance, but also to the erudition. I promised you (and I promise again) to be just as rigorous in the daily examination I carry out on my treatise, in which, if I find some error, I shall be the first to inform you. But I entreated you (as I am entreating you again) to grant me full liberty to explain and defend myself, if by chance one were to ascribe to error that which is not. With regard, then, to the comment made to me, not only is there no mistake as far my treatise is concerned, but