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Na sprehodu s Tartinijem

After young Giuseppe finished his education at the Collegio in Koper, he did not agree with his father's plans to become a friar. He stood up to his father and chose to study law in Padua instead. He was a good student but he was even better at fencing, and planned to open a fencing school in Naples or Paris. In 1710, his father died suddenly. Giuseppe fell in love and soon after his father's death, in July 1710, when he turned 18, he married Elisabetta Giacomo Premazore in Padua, two years his senior. The wedding allegedly angered the Bishop of Padua, who took care of Elisabetta and her estate, and the newly wed Tartini had to flee Padua and retreat (actually hide) to the monastery of St Francis of Assisi, where he took on the violin. He practised eight hours a day and learned music theory and composition.