Taruffi (Giuseppe Antonio) Autograph letter signed ('Taruffi') to an unknown recipient, in English, reading "Some business of great importance kept me nine days absent from this capital. At my return I found your most obliging letter of the 7th of the instant and I was exceedingly delighted with your kindness. You are indeed a matchless nobleman. Did you know the Prince Charles of Curlandia? I swear you knew the strangest valet (?) that ever was. It is pity! The Prince in spite of his ugly figure is a man of wit but his having been kept in the Bastille does very little honour to his conduct. Canon Ghigiotti took a trip to Ammerland, but shall be at Warsaw in few days. I hope the Holy See was already informed with your title. The King of Poland, believe me, is more jealous than you of very thing that may become his greatness and dignity. As to Canon Ghigiotti, be sure, he loves you dearly as well as I", one page, integral blank, minor-age related toning, 4to, Vienna 18 April 1768.   ***Giuseppe Antonio Taruffi (1715 - Rome , 1786 ) was an Italian writer, diplomat and chess player. In 1764 or 1765 he moved to Warsaw as an auditor by the Apostolic Nuncio Antonio Eugenio Visconti . He remained a few years in Warsaw, where he learned Polish and then with Visconti moved to Vienna, where he held the same position. Here he met the composer Pietro Metastasio , of whom he was the biographer. Canon Gaetano Ghigiotti was the secretary of the King of Poland Stanisław August Poniatowski.