Description of the Arts

...left as a booty-penny original: Beutpfennig; a piece of plunder or a prize to be snatched up in the midst of so many excellent potentates original: Potentaten; rulers or monarchs, without any help or its own protection, and subjected to so many insatiable desires and temptations original: Anfechtungen. It was torn apart and fragmented by so many different victorious peoples and conquerors, and was soon protected neither by the Western original: Occidentalischen nor the Eastern original: Orientalischen Emperors as was necessary and proper.

No one else could have attacked and subjugated this Realm and Imperial Dignity original: Keyserthumb but such a victorious, invincible hero—one who could first drive away the rebellious enemies and rebels with a strong, armed hand. That is to say, one who could repel the unlawful and excessively sprawling greed of Desiderius The King of the Lombards, whom Charlemagne defeated, and blow to the wind the weaker, powerless Eastern or Constantinopolitan princes. For though they believed they had a claim or right to the Empire, they could in no way maintain it with the proper power; he, however, was able to drive them away with great, invincible might.

Such an invincible, most powerful King and Prince at that time was none other than our Emperor Charlemagne original: Carolus Magnus, who ruled all of France and Germany (which is the mighty, and in all the world...)