Phonurgia Nova

...Trumpet of heroic virtues, I say, I will sing a PAEAN original: Pæana; a song of triumph or thanksgiving, originally dedicated to Apollo in Greek antiquity., by which the most Religious LEOPOLD I, Emperor of the Romans, forever August, shines forth to the World as a rare example. For if I examine the manner of Your Actions more deeply, I see, O most invincible CAESAR Though the title of an ancient Roman leader, "Caesar" was used here as a standard title for the Holy Roman Emperor, emphasizing his role as the successor to the Roman Empire., within Your Great-Minded heart, in an entirely harmonious order, all the defenses of interlinked virtues which are found elsewhere only in scattered and incomplete forms: Love of Religion, Faith, and Steadfastness toward the Empire entrusted to Your Care; Zeal in routing the enemies of the Christian Commonwealth original: Christianæ Reipublicæ; this refers to the collective body of Christian nations, often used in this era to describe Europe under the spiritual leadership of the Church and the temporal protection of the Emperor.; and a spirit unshaken through prosperity and adversity, despite so many and such great attacks and plots. But indeed, in this precarious