Karl, Grand Duke of Frankfurt, Royal Highness: In a Lecture at the Museum in Frankfurt

continues from previous page: A collected store of useful... knowledge and higher sciences destined him for travels in order to study, learn, and understand the customs, lifestyle, habits, forms of government, and similar things of foreign nations. And for whom were such travels more necessary, for whom more beneficial and advantageous, than for our SUBLIME KARL, who was destined by Providence to be a ruler, and who was training himself for it! His first concern was Italy, where Rome, the capital of this empire, drew his entire attention, and where he strove to deserve the full trust and love of Pope CLEMENT XIII. (7) The greatest part of his Italian

(7) The papal secretary Giacomelli immediately made known the judgment of Pope CLEMENT XIII to the princes and gave them the following glorious and honorable news about him:

He has so won over the mind of the Pontiff, Dalberg, that from the time he paid respects to His Holiness, the Most Holy Father speaks of him often. The Pontiff continued to me, stating that he had not seen a nobleman more worthy than him, that the elegance of his manners is exceptional, his discourse liberal and wise, his prudence in responding singular, and all are arguments of the greatest hope.

He decorated him with the same praises before the Most Eminent Cardinal ALBANI and others. See the late Schwabe, Syllabus of the Rectors of the Heidelberg Academy, Part II, page 269, Note (m).