Long Life, Short Art

to be lifted from the baptismal font by your hand, or when he wished a first happy and auspicious marriage for JOSEPH II, the then-royal Prince, or when he congratulated the same elected King of the Romans on the common consent of the princes of the empire. In conducting these affairs you employed such dexterity and skill that anyone could easily understand how much it was at your heart to manage the mandates of your Prince with dignity. Indeed, this was never more apparent than when, through your efforts, the new bride from Bavaria was brought to the same JOSEPH II, namely Maria Josepha, daughter of Emperor Charles VII, who, having been shown to these lands, was almost not her own and was perpetual, so that she was not even to be named by