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

384 opinion. From this thing, which is an annoyance for me, I hope we can obtain some good, for the examination of what you have in your hands, for which, if I am alive, I shall infallibly be there in the month of September of the coming year, if such timing suits both Your Reverence and Signor Dottor Balbi. These are the things that happened, and my present circumstances, for which I deserve to be pitied, as well as excused, seeing that I am too unfit to appear in the world with any other title than that of violinist. I ask you, therefore, and Signor Dottor Balbi, after this news, to consider my silence from another perspective than that which I apparently gave you the occasion for; and, rather, believe me to be as ever, as I most obsequiously remain, Your Most Reverend Father’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 21 December 1752 107. Tartini to G.B. Martini Your most kind letter has lifted me from the greatest affliction of the soul that could ever take place in a man. I confess that I have wronged you by suspecting that due to my negligence, consisting in not writing to you for a long time, both Your Reverence and Signor Dottor Balbi had taken offence, and, for a few moments, I ascribed the delay in your reply to this reason. It is true that I never believed this in my heart, and that I only suspected it. This suspicion, however, was more than sufficient to trouble me a lot. Now, may God be thanked, for both the one and the other shall continue to be good patrons of mine and to favour me. I am replying to you that, barring death or infirmity, I shall be there in August, and meanwhile, in due time (it shall be more or less in May) I shall send you three books of the treatise on music, as I wrote to you in my other letter. If, then, Your Reverence believes it possible to sell a few books in your area, besides the three aforementioned, I would send a dozen more of them. But with regard to this, you must freely write to me your opinion, while I submit to you my most cordial regards, as I do to the worthiest Signor Dottor Balbi, and I remain Your Fatherhood most Reverend’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 1 February 1754