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

397 LETTERS 116. Tartini to G.R. Carli Padua 16 August 1755 The Most illustrious Signor Ippolito 69 informed me, already a long time ago, of what Your Most Illustrious Lordship had written to him with regard to my books, and twenty-nine and a half lira for the four sold were given to me. In execution of your command to assign there a person to whom to deliver the unsellable remainder, it should properly be delivered to Signor Giovanni Battista Manganoni, who will either come or send somebody to receive it by order of Signor Marchese Pozzobonelli of Padua. But the remainder amounts to seven books, not eight, as one is for Your Most Illustrious Lordship, and I find it impossible to believe that I did not tell you this in my first letter, in which I begged you for the favour of receiving them and selling them, as I have done with all my patrons with whom I have begged for the same favour. I meanwhile thank you for the inconvenience you have hitherto undergone and kindly endured. Furthermore I dare to beg of you a new favour, namely to find in those lands a learned person who can kindly take care of the examination of the first, second and third chapters, in which there is little music and a lot of physics and mathematics. Madama Agnesi 70 is there, and Padre Rondinelli 71 is in Pavia. Your Most Illustrious Lordship, distinguished by rank and doctrine among those people, can do anything if you wish; and I heartily look for the truth; and am quite ready to publicly recant if you enlighten and convince me. I ask Your Most Illustrious Lordship to contribute, as much as you can, to the wishes of an honest man in a scientific subject which is rather important and hitherto quite obscure, and hence understood little or not at all. Nothing can come therefrom to you if not glory and honour, and certainly nothing is risked with regard to a man who seeks the truth. I convey my most reverent respects to you, and remain as ever 117. Tartini to G.B. Martini After a long pause I return to visit Your Reverence with this letter of mine, in which I must beg of you a favour and must notify you of something. The favour consists in this, that after making a well-protected package of the unsold books, you send it using 69 Bertolani. See above, note 66. 70 Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799). 71 A man of religion residing in Ravenna, see Algarotti: 1792: p. 201.