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

479 DOCUMENTS left Italy a few months later for Bohemia and then returned to Padua after three years to his customary service at S. Antonio, he was enjoined by the woman (with whom during this time he had had no correspondence whatsoever), by means of a religious person, to think of her son as his son. Since the religious person in Venice had privately dealt with the matter and taken the liberty, never granted by Tartini, of arranging some payment to the woman, this person was in Padua convinced by Tartini of his mistake. He withdrew, and nothing was concluded. However, since Tartini discovered in this instance that the woman had had the son baptised at Castello with the name of unknown (or undisclosed) mother and Giuseppe Tartini as father (this being the reason why the religious person, having seen this baptismal record in Venice, had arranged the payment to the woman), Tartini turned in Venice to Monsignor Vicario Mainardi, who, having heard the case as described here, provided justice for him by having the name Giuseppe Tartini removed by the former procurator Giustinian in Calle delle Acque, as currently it remains removed. Then, some years later, when His Excellency Angelo Emo, who had already been informed by the woman in Venice and was totally biased in her favour, became capitanio in Padua, he summoned Tartini to him, and after understanding the events as they are described here, not only did he recognise Tartini to be right, but together, by means of a letter, with His Excellency Fedrigo Corner and His Excellency Polo Renier (all deceased), he had the woman ordered to harass Tartini no further, proposing to her that her son, who was to be raised for the church and pointed towards the priesthood, would have a perfectly sufficient chapelry, but this being refused by the woman, from then on, for the rest of her life, she caused no further harassment whatsoever to Tartini. But some time after her death, her son, who had already become a priest, appeared personally in Padua and by private means insisted vigorously with Tartini to be recognised as his son, and indeed with determination he himself wanted, from his own mouth, to declare himself as such to Tartini. When met in the streets, he was constantly rejected by Tartini. After this encounter which happened three or four years ago, he has returned with this letter to his harassment, from which Tartini seeks to free himself forever, assured by his conscience that he has no debt whatsoever with him. 188. Further material concerning the accusation of Catina Bufelli and her son In around 1720 Giuseppe Tartini, through lodgings, entered into friendship and familiarity with Catina Bufelli, unmarried but not a virgin, innkeeper in Contrada Larga di San Moise, in 1722 discovered to be pregnant at time of equal dealings with Tartini and with an officer of rank then cohabiting there. Since the Officer