Am Mittwoch, 08. Mai 2019 20:00 CEST, Monica Hall <mjlh...@cs.dartmouth.edu> schrieb: > The relevant passage reads as follows. Feel free to correct the > translation..... > > Recently the world-famous guitarist, Corbetta, who taught all the > Potentates of Europe, came here [to Turin] from England. But because > he had the misfortune to break a fingernail (and with old folk these > grow again very slowly) it was impossible for him to present himself at > the festival with his consort, however much he wanted to. Every > foreign musician who performed at court in Turin was given 500 Thlr. > and Madame Royale wished to show her generosity by not withholding > anything from Signor Corbetta . > > Corbetta complained bitterly that he had come from England with great > difficulty,
In this case I'd translate "Schaden" with "expenses", but that's a detail. > and because he had invited people from Italy to come there > [to Turin] to play in consort on his guarantee, he had to pay them > afterwards out of his own pocket. That's what I wrote - he had to pay them out of his own pocket. You claimed: "Corbetta didn't have to pay his musicians out of his own pocket - that's just another myth." Cheers, RalfD To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
