The Ideal Form of Realization of a Partimento

At the Paris Conservatory in the 1840s, an assistant professor, we might call him, Ipulit Colle, C-O-L-E-T. He published a 340-page book on partimenti, and it includes a lot of Italian partimenti. And so what he said is, to realize a partimento properly, the ideal kind of realization would be like a two-part invention by Bach or a Scarlatti Sonata. So at least the idea that the sound of the menico Scarlatti would be an ideal form of realization was still alive 100 years after his life.