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

354 have detected what the substance of my proof mainly and solely consists in. Either one aims at this substance, or not. If not, the examination is useless, therefore I have now written two answers to two objections which conclude nothing, neither for nor against. If so, the difficulties suggested to me (always with the exception of the first one) do not pertain in any way to the substance. I then conclude that it seems impossible to me that they have been proposed by Signor Dottor Balbi, provided he is (as I suppose) really interested in this matter. I shall therefore go back to praying more than ever that both Signor Dottor Balbi and Your Reverence get truly interested, and interested in the substance, which is all that matters. If your Reverence believed the treatise to be destined to some new practical use of music with regard to irrational sounds, please correct your opinion. I would be very foolish if I meant that and none of these things are intrinsically necessary for the trial of my proposition. If upon said point there is any objection remaining for you, it should be entirely removed, as it is a conditio sine qua non ; and I am more than ready to answer with as much patience and time as you command, to all the objections you shall propose to me on this point, until we either come to agree or you convince me otherwise from what I am presently convinced of. I ask Your Reverence (in confidence) to write and tell me to whom I have to get the chocolate delivered in Ferrara, as I have seriously considered that I can safely send it that far; no further, after which, the Jesuit Padre Calini, who should have taken it with him, has enlightened me telling me the new extra information; and, as a consequence, the evident danger. I shall await a prompt answer upon this point, and submitting to you my most reverent regards, as I do to the Most Illustrious Signor Dottor Balbi, I remain as ever Your Reverence’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 14 April 1752 94. Tartini to G.B. Martini I thank Your Reverence and the Most Illustrious Signor Dottor Balbi more and more, but my obligation towards you is greater than any expression of gratitude. I entreat you to continue, as I think I can clearly see that we shall come to a good conclusion. Your Reverence should not fear that I tire in replying to the objections, because for me it is the same as discussing; and I simply entreat you with all my heart to excuse me for