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

393 LETTERS it worthy of your approval. Please continue to bestow your kind patronage upon me, as I, for as long as I live, will always be what I most obsequiously declare myself to be, that is Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 1 June 1754 112. Tartini to G.B. Martini At last, here is the book in question, two copies of which shall be presented with this letter of mine to Your Reverence by Signor Lelio dalla Volpe: 67 one for Your Reverence, the other for the Most Illustrious Signor Dottor Balbi, to whom you should convey my most cordial respects. In the hands of the same Signor Lelio dalla Volpe there will be twelve copies to be sold there. I strongly urge Your Reverence that you and your friends and correspondents contribute as much as possible to the timely sale of the aforementioned copies, even though the price is a little high, due to the great quantity of musical examples. Your Reverence knows the mystery in general, and shall know it, God willing, precisely between one Easter and the next of the following year, as it is not advisable for me to come to town at present, because it is necessary to allow time for a public judgement of this book. Remember that what you find in the book (except the demonstrations and deductions) is all mystery, and remember this well, faithfully keeping the secret existing among the three of us, which one day Padre Riccati will be privy to, since I have already sent him a copy as he is now in Treviso. In actual fact I have no interest in the printing, indeed on the contrary I am a few zecchini out of pocket. But Your Reverence knows our need, which is the prompt distribution of this book in order to perceive the public judgement promptly and with certainty. But I beg you to contribute effectively as much as you can and are able in this intent, all the more so in a city such as this. With regard to a book which is much better suited to learned men than to musicians, the sale of just twelve copies seems an easy thing to me. I convey to you my most cordial regards, and remain as ever Your Reverence Most Reverend Fatherhood’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 9 August 1754 67 Bolognese printer and bookseller. See “Della Volpe, Lelio”, Ng, vol. 7, p. 176.