A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sartoretti

by George Grove

SARTORETTI, a Mantuan lady who deserves to be rescued from oblivion for her conduct to Mozart when he visited Mantua in January 1770 as a boy of not quite 14. She invited him to dinner, sent him a dish containing a garland of choice flowers tied with red ribands, and in the midst of the ribands a medal worth four ducats, and a copy of verses by herself headed Al Signor Amadeo Wolfgango Mozart, Anacreontica. His hands were at the time severely chapped with the cold, and she gave him some pomade which quickly restored them. The verses are printed by Jahn in his Mozart, App. III. A, 6.

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