Long Life, Short Art

my father, that he above all others, while you were residing in this city, was chosen as the one whose services he would utilize in caring for your health for those very nineteen years. Nor can the excellence of your nobility or of your mind and character be unknown among us, after you have served in the office of legate to the Court of our August Princes for many years with great praise and to your own commendation. The Most Serene Duke and Elector of Bavaria thought that this task should be entrusted to you above others, whether to signify the grief felt at the death of the excellent Mother, the Most August Empress Amalia, Electress of Bavaria, or when [the Elector] wished the Archduke Maximilian