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437 LETTERS Your Reverence’s most devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 26 August 1761 152. Tartini to G.B. Martini I have often heard it said that he who should give, wishes to have, but I have never heard that he who should have, wishes to give. Yet I have experienced this with Your Reverence, to whom I owe so much and am so greatly indebted. You send me gifts of most exquisite rosolio. Oh what a fine thing! If I believed everybody to be similar to Your Reverence, I would like to become indebted up to my ears; but I am sure that there is not even one who is like that. I do not know if I should thank you, or if I should complain about such abuse of power. I know just one thing for sure, and it is that Your Reverence must not only let me do what I want, but furthermore must not do again what you have done. I give you this command with the authority of an old man; and Your Reverence should beware of the wrath of the old. As for the fact that Lord Cavaliere Broschi 92 remembers me, this has pleasantly surprised me more than I am able to express. Such courtesy has become natural, and all the world knows it. But if I look at myself, I do not deserve it; but it is something too dear and honourable not to attribute to my great fortune and to preserve in the depths of my heart. I ask Your Reverence to tell him on my behalf that I am his most humble and cordial servant, and that if he ever passes through Padua on any journey either for pleasure or for business, he should exempt me from any reservations he may have with others, and letting me know at any time and hour where he is staying, may he grant me that before my death I may kiss his hands just once. To my dearest and worthiest Signor Filippo Giorgi 93 my most cordial regards, and while conveying them to Your Reverence with a true heart I remain as ever Your Reverence’s most devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 18 September 1761 92 Carlo Broschi, better known as Farinelli. See See Ellen T. Harris, “Farinelli”, in Ng, vol. 8, pp. 565-569. 93 The tenor Filippo Giorgi appears to have been active in Bologna, Rome, Naples and Moscow. See Le stanze della musica: artisti e musicisti a Bologna dal ’500 al ’900 , edited by M. Medica, Bologna, Silvana, 2002, p. 24; D. J. Nichols and S. Hansell. “Hasse”, in Ng, vol. 11.