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.