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

415 LETTERS to my hands today, or tomorrow, it would return on time; and I am heartily obliged to you for the kind toil of your examination and observations, which I await impatiently, and which benefit me all the more, as they are connected to the reading you carried out of Euler’s Tentamen Musicum . 82 But from what you have written to me in secret, I believe more and more firmly that the concept of harmony formed by learned men is quite different from that of us professionals. I convey to you my most cordial regards, I thank you heartily and as ever I remain Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 8 September 1756 130. Tartini to [Michele Stratico?] To my mortification, Padre Agostino personally inconvenienced himself in order to bring me the dissertation, accompanied by the letter and objections written by Your Most Illustrious Lordship, to whom I am ever more obliged. I am equally obliged to the Most Reverend Padre Stellini, to whom you should convey my most cordial regards, together with my heartiest thanks. Meanwhile, the delay is most helpful, and shall produce an excellent effect, as between you (my sworn enemy) and I, we can pull each other’s wigs (we have no hair) to our hearts’ content. The fact is that if the objections are not truly solved, the dissertation must not be published. But in your good conscience, when you conceived and wrote them (I have already not only read, but devoured them) did they persuade you? I believe not: and I actually believe that, if you wish, you can reply to them all better than I can; but you want to tempt and try me. Be it in the name of God, it is now up to Harlequin, that is to say, to myself. I heartily embrace you a thousand times, and as ever I bow to you and remain Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 9 September 1756 82 Euler, 1739.