“One of the Men Who Most Shaped the History of Istria”

By examining a selection of documents from the Koper archives, this article offers an in­sight into the reception of Tartini in Koper in the nineteenth century. It deals with Luigi Biscontini’s musical treatise Trattatello dell’Arte del suono e del canto [Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Art of Sound and Singing], the correspondence between Manzoni and Stanco­vich, and documents from the Borisi family collection relating to the erection of the Tartini monument in Piran.