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

410 122. Tartini to [Michele Stratico?] Being reduced to the necessity of disentangling myself from the known business with Euler, 76 I kindly entreat you to give me some information both for my own understanding and for your relief and advantage. For if the translation in French or in Latin has not been completed yet, it is a clear sign that Your Most Illustrious Lordship, due to the kindness you have towards me, has undertaken a burdensome commitment, not so much for the thing itself, as for the time, which you lack. If that is the case please promptly forward the papers here to me, as I have never intended to burden you more than is due; and I declare to you the same debt as if you had, in fact, completed the assignment, as I am more than certain that if you could have done it, you would have. When you do this and you will naturally favour me with a letter of yours, please take the trouble to reply to me about the sonatinas you have received and, by this time (I wish to believe), have tried. If in some way you succeed in playing them, write to me about it, so that I can continue the supply, which will not be scarce. I wish to serve you in some way, though with the certainty that I can never fulfil my obligations and my wishes. Please continue to bestow your kindness upon me, and consider me as most deferentially, but also cordially, I remain Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 6 March 1756 123. Tartini to [Michele Stratico?] Yesterday I received your letter with the Latin translation, etc. I did not reply because yesterday was the day of the Sacred Tongue which is a solemn feast for us. I cordially thank you for what you have done, and it is certain that the translation will be returned into your hands to be delivered to Signor Conte Algarotti. I am pleased that you are having some success with the sonatas, as the copying can thus be continued until the end. Continue bestowing upon me your love and benevolent assistance both in this matter with Euler and in others of the same nature, should they occur, and I meanwhile 76 L. Euler. See Letters 120-121.