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

480 had departed from Venice, and Tartini had remained, the woman tried to connect the newborn child to the latter, proposing the desire to keep it with her. This being constantly denied by Tartini, who actually, having detected the guile, promised six zecchini to pay the midwife, so that she, in any case, would have the child taken to the usual orphanage; and when the time of birth came, in which Tartini was in Cremona because of a musical commitment, the woman thwarted the midwife and kept the child with her. Tartini, who had returned to Venice, and having been informed of the case, confronted the woman most gravely and vigorously, she defended herself and backed the action taken by saying that she was satisfied as she was: prepared for any fate regarding herself and her son, independently of anyone. On this point there was no further disagreement; and as Tartini contributed money towards the woman before the birth for the carnal dealings, so by the same effect did he continue after the birth to contribute for the few further months he remained in Venice. Then, having Tartini departed from Italy for Bohemia and having returned to Padua after three years, at the usual service at S. Antonio, on the part of the woman, with whom during this time he had had no correspondence whatsoever, he was enjoined, through a religious person, to think of her son as his son. Having reasonably dealt with the matter, and since the religious person in Venice had 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, given that it was discovered in this instance by Tartini that the woman had had the son baptised in Castello with the name of mother unknown (or undisclosed) and father Giuseppe Tartini (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, as currently it remains removed. Then, having become Captain in Padua some years later, His Excellency Angelo Emo, who had already been informed by the woman and was totally biased in her favour, summoned Tartini to him, and having understood the facts as they is described here, not only did he recognise Tartini to be right, but together in a letter with His Excellency Fedrigo Corner and His Excellency Polo Renier (all deceased) he had the woman ordered to harass Tartini no further and proposed to her that her son, who was to be raised for the church and pointed towards the priesthood, could 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 he insisted vigorously with Tartini to be recognised as his son; and indeed he himself wanted, from his own mouth, to purposefully declare himself as such to Tartini, whom he met on purpose in the streets, but was constantly rejected by Tartini. Three or four years after such