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

449 LETTERS regard to the other matter of ours, I beg you to show without hesitation my letter to the Signor Abate Terzi, to whom I shall write asking him to meet and consult with you, if you agree. This is a necessary step to conclude the matter, and the Abate will decide if this is sufficient or not for our purpose. Secrecy is indeed important, as I will strongly recommend to the Signor Abate who must take care to observe it jealously. I accompany you with my heart on your journey, and when you have arrived in Naples, I assign you the task of writing to me, and with a thousand embraces and a most cordial bow to the gentlemen, your disciples, as ever I remain the Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s most cordial friend and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini 165. Tartini to G.B. Martini From Signor Dottor Antonio Costa I have received, as per your order, three compositions of yours: a solo, a duet and a trio. I ask Your Reverence to instruct me on how to send them to you, and you shall be obeyed. He has had the pleasure and honour of serving you, and is full of esteem and admiration for Your Reverence, and I have no merit whatsoever in having served you as a mediator, as I found him willing to comply with your every interest and command. I meanwhile convey to you my most cordial and respectful regards, and as ever I remain Your Reverence’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 17 October 1766 166. Tartini to G.B. Martini I hereby unite my dutiful thanking of Your Reverence for receiving your book on the practical art of counterpoint with the offer of these three booklets, which likewise discuss counterpoint: in no way to compensate your gift, but only to make a donation. Your Reverence treats the art, while I treat the science of counterpoint, but with this