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the year 1722, where, though he had a salary of four hundred ducats a year, yet his attendance was only required on great festivals; but so strong was his zeal for the service of his patron saint, that he seldom let a week pass without regaling him to the utmost power of his palsied nerves.
He died universally regretted by the Patavinians, who had long been amused by his talents, and edified by his piety and good works. To his Excellency Count Torre Taxis of Venice, his scholar and protector, he bequeathed his MS. music; and to the professor Padre Colom- bo, who had long been his friend and counsellor, he left the care of a posthu- mous work, of which, though chiefly mathematical, the theory of sound makes a considerable part *.
There was a public function performed for him at Padua, March 31, 1770, at
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