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

411 LETTERS embrace you most cordially one thousand times on the one hand, and on the other I convey to you my most reverent regards, and remain Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 10 March 1756 124. Tartini to an unknown recipient Before receiving the attentions of Your Excellency with regard to this Signora Migliorini, 77 action had here been taken both by myself and by others in favour of the said lady, whom the Signori Venturini of Venice had had recommended to me. But all in vain, because since last January an agreement was entered into and concluded for a young lady to be retained at the Court of Bavaria in Venice at the school of a certain Barbieri. 78 Too many solutions have been suggested; but the case in question, which is precise and restricted, does not allow for any of them, if not by utter violence; and therefore unusable. The fact is, that if this singer wishes to come here for next year, there will be a place; but it is necessary to conclude now for then. If her ability is such and so great that during this time she could advance to the standing of appearing as a prima donna , this would still be feasible: of course, after having assessed the necessary certifications and her real ability. To sum up, not finding the place occupied, as has happened this year, may Your Excellency be assured of my work, not as mine (I neither play in theatres, nor ever go to the opera) but of those patrons who believe me, and commit themselves heartily for me. I submit to you my most deferential regards, and I remain as ever Your Excellency’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 12 March 1756 77 Maddalena Migliorini, a singer working in Venice. See Wiel. 78 Most likely the tenor Antonio Barbieri (fl. 1720-1743). See Timms, “Barbieri, Antonio”, in Ng.