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

399 LETTERS as this project of mine, or rather this system of mine, is growing increasingly just as I wished, my need for sacrosanct silence and secrecy about what has passed and shall pass between us also increases, until God wishes for the right time to arrive for me to come there in person: a silence and secrecy that excepts no person whatsoever and which is the silence and secrecy of confession; and one that must certainly be equal to it. Submit my most deferential regards to the Most Illustrious Signor Dottor Balbi, as I heartily do to Your Reverence, and I remain as ever Your Reverence’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 12 September 1755 119. Tartini to G.B. Martini Within the next week, two young gentlemen shall arrive there, highly recommended by me to the Most Illustrious Signor Dottor Balbi and to Your Reverence. One of them has graduated in medicine here; his name is Giuseppe Bertozzi, and he is a nobleman from Friuli. The other, whose name is Antonio Puiati, is the son of the Most Illustrious Signor Giuseppe Puiati, 73 leading professor of medicine in this university, who was elected in place of the famous Macope 74 and is truly more than worthy of occupying this position. They come to this school to gain better proficiency, so they come with particular merit, especially Puiati, who could find everything he needs in his father. They are two most honest young men of particular talent and with an equal will to study. They therefore deserve to be given particular attention, and I, acting for both parties with conviction, have taken the liberty of accompanying them with two letters of mine, one for Your Reverence, the other for the Most Illustrious Balbi, to whom Your Reverence should show this letter of mine, so that he is forewarned and knows beforehand who they are and why they are being recommended. Incidentally Your Reverence should know that I am presently in a debate with the famous Euler over my book, and that soon I shall also have him on my side. This shall be a good point from which to continue, and Your 73 Pujati, Giuseppe Antonio (1701-1760). A doctor and scientist from the Friuli region who graduated in Padua; a member of the Accademia dei Ricoverati. 74 Knips Macoppe, Alessandro (1662-1744). A Paduan, a doctor in philosophy and medicine, who held the chair of practical medicine at the University of Padua.