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The truth is, that, with respect to the mysteries of the science, which he seems to have known intuitively, he is some- times intelligible, and sometimes other- wise; but I have such an opinion of Tartini's penetration and sagacity in his musical enquiries, that when he is ob- scure, I suppose it to be occasioned either by his aiming too much at conciseness in explaining himself, by the insuffici- ency of common language to express un- common ideas, or that he soars above the reach of my conceptions; and in this case I am ready to apply to him what Socrates said to Euripides, upon being asked by that poet how he liked the writings of Heraclitus--" What I under- " stand is excellent, which inclines me " to believe that what I do not under- " stand is excellent likewise."
He is succeeded in the church of St. Antonio by his scholar, Signor Guglietto Trombo, a young man of merit.
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