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

475 DOCUMENTS Earnings from noble travellers 1,350 Editions of two musical works 500 Salary from the Santo 1723-1733 900 Salary from the Santo 1733-1767 5,780 partial total 8,530 School 14,600 Outside music 1,540 Extra earnings in Padua 800 total 25,470 I have received many gifts of snuff boxes, medals and some silverware; including these things with the furnishings of my house [tear in the page] I can at discretion assign the added sums 25,470 + 1,000 = 26,470 If I add my actual current money of about 500 ducats to the total sum, my current assets will be 26,470 + 500 = 26,970 Expenditure, that is to say debt [the text breaks off here] 186. Document with financial report Facts that prove the falsity of the assumption that Tartini is a wealthy man Tartini in the year 1727, due to a necessity of life, pledged with Signor Domenico Scala for 13 zecchini a coin of 20 ongari ; and the mediator was Signor Dottor Don Biagio Saetta, today Monsignor Saetta living in Rome: a witness worthy of trust. Hence Tartini had no money then. In the year 1752, Tartini took out a loan from the Dimesse Sisters of Padua, 1,550 current ducats to save the family house of Piran; and this through legal means. Hence he had no money then. In the last year 1766, he paid the Dimesse Sisters 2,400 current ducats for capital and interest: taken from Monsignor Fantini, who was then in Padua, with the mortgage of the fields that were once of the Casa Fantini and of the houses bought by Tartini; having added the condition of usufruct, for the duration of Tartini’s life and of that of his wife. Hence Tartini had no money then; and the case is recent, of just a few months