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at Mecca: and though, since his death, all these particulars are become histori- cal, and hardly belong to the present state of music; yet I should be inclined to present the reader with a sketch of his life, if my books and papers collected in the Venetian state, among which are the materials I acquired at Padua concerning Tartini, were arrived.
As it is, I shall only say, that he was born at Pirano, in Istria, in 1692; that, in his early youth, having manifested an attachment to a young person, who was regarded as unworthy of being allied to his family, his father shut him up; and during his confinement he amused him- self with musical instruments, in order to divert his melancholy; so that it was by mere accident that he discovered in him- self the seeds of those talents which after- wards grew into so much eminence.
M. de la Lande says that he had from his own mouth the following singular anecdote, which shews to what degree
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