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

414 128. Tartini to [Michele Stratico?] Your servant Tartini, who from the critical disquisitions on his treatise received from learnedmen has recognised the need thereof, intends to publish in print the enclosed dissertation; and by doing so, to provoke the learned, either privately or publicly, to a war (an honest and civil one, but open and declared). Your Most Illustrious Lordship should then think about the very serious examination of this dissertation. 80 And if the Most Reverend Padre Stellini, 81 to whom I convey my most cordial and most reverent regards, together with a strong and incisive supplication for this grace, should ever wish or be able to join you in this regard, this would be the very best for my intent and need. The problem is that time is short, because I have the real necessity of having the dissertation back in my hands before the 5th of the coming month. But after all the dissertation is brief, and if Your Most Illustrious Lordship wishes to apply both head and heart to the examination, and of that I am certain, I can obtain my intent and satisfy my needs. I then strongly entrust this to you, and conveying to you my most cordial regards, as I do to the Most Illustrious Signor Eliano, as ever I remain Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 26 August 1756 129. Tartini to [Michele Stratico?] The real reason I have not received the said dissertation from Your Most Illustrious Lordship for the day I decided, is due neither to Your Most Illustrious Lordship, nor to the Most Reverend Padre Stellini, to whom you should convey my most respectful regards together with my most heartfelt thanks. It is due to your servant Tartini’s usual impatience (in this sort of thing it gets stronger and stronger as I get older and older), thanks to which the time was confined to a strict limit. If the dissertation were to return 80 A Dissertazione containing the principle of Tartini’s theory is cited and discussed by L. Del Fra in the context of the Tartini-Riccati correspondence. See Del Fra, 2007: pp. XXXVI-XXXVII. 81 Jacopo Stellini (1699-1770). Philosopher and education theorist of the order of the Somaschi, he was professor of morals in Padua (from 1739). He studied in particular ethical and pedagogical problems. See “Stellini, Iacopo”, in Dizionario Biografico dei friulani: vol. 3, pp. 2397-2407.