“Most Reverend Excellency, I had your very precious of the 4 of the current, very kind expressions for which I must thank you endlessly. Taking advantage of the license that you have granted me, I have had your beautiful quatrains printed here in a periodical sheet of which I am sending you a copy. If you would like some other copy, I would see to be able to serve you. I am still sending you for some of my guests, who respect you most cordially, the certificate in favor of Dr. Guidetti, who together with Messrs. he will be held supremely pardoned by her, obtaining half the known license for her. Please be pleased to return my best regards to Mrs. Orfei. I know that she has been here a few days, and I inquired where she lived, with the intention of visiting her, but at that time I was forced by an inconvenience of health to keep myself at home for several weeks, and therefore I was unable to see her. . & nbsp;
May you keep me the benevolence that without my merit you have granted me, and on occasion do not spare me, persuading yourself that I am truly of heart and always I will be Di V. Ecc. Revma. Dmo Obbmo servant. Giacomo Leopardi. "
Count Carlo Emanuele Muzzarelli, a law graduate and auditor of the Sacra Rota court, was a reference figure in the Roman cultural scenario, with a constant literary and cultural activity; he published second-hand verses and above all was part of numerous and prestigious academies, including Arcadia (with the name Dalindo Efesio), the Tiberina, the Latina (of which he was also president), the Accademia dei Lincei, the Accademia di S. Luca and the Pontifical Academy of Archeology. He was in correspondence with Leopardi, in whose honor he composed the ode to Count Giacomo Leopardi, published in the "Bibliographic and urban theatrical news or Il Caffè di Petronio", I [1825], 51, p. 203, referred to in this letter.