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

441 LETTERS 156. Tartini to Johann Gottlieb Naumann 95 Padua, 14 May 1762 I cannot tell you enough how much pleasure and satisfaction your dearest letter written to me from Bologna has brought to me. Then hearing that you are being schooled in counterpoint by Padre Martini has doubled it, and I rejoice with you over the fact that you have finally been delivered into his hands and under his instruction. I thank you for the memory and the love you cherish for me. And be assured that in this you are entirely reciprocated and that the love I have for you will last in me for as long as I live. This close feeling gives me hope of being able to see you again within this year, and in fact my most esteemed and courteous Signor Lodovico has given me sure hope of this from you in person. I do not know if it will be the same for you too, but I hope so; even more so, given that after your studies carried out in Naples, and those which you are carrying out and will carry out there, we could discuss it here among ourselves much better than we have done in the past. I need no more from you there than to make use of the last chance to crown your toils and your studies; and to inform Signor Lodovico that today I will write to him too, so he should look out for my letter in the post. Of this I inform you as I am writing to you at the delivery address suggested, so that my letter arrives safely. Meanwhile, please keep bestowing your love on me and be always assured that I am and always shall be as I cordially declare myself Your Lordship’s most affectionate servant Giuseppe Tartini 157. Tartini to G.B. Martini It is indeed time to write and reply to Your Reverence after such a long silence of mine. However, I know in my conscience that I have so far had insufficient time, such and so many are my present occupations and toils. Nonetheless, it is true that the postponement of my replies has served a purpose allowing me to put them all together without multiplying the number of letters, so in the present letter I can bring together what is necessary between us. Firstly, I shall tell you that I have been quite worried about Your Reverence’s health, whose discomfort I was already told about prior to your penultimate letter. In any case, by the grace of God, I can now rejoice 95 Dieter Härtwig, revised by Laurie H. Ongley, “Naumann, Johann Gottlieb”, in Ng, vol. 17.