Disquisition on the Celebrated Poetic Book Theuerdanck

...it would have been that thanks were given to Emperor Maximilian for his deeds performed with vigor.

II:

The author of the book was Melchior Pfintzing, whose life story is described here.

We identify Melchior Pfintzing as the author of this book, for reasons to be cited later. He came from the most noble Pfintzing family, which not only shone with spotless honors in the illustrious Free Republic of Nuremberg within the Holy Roman Empire Nuremberg was a "Free Imperial City," meaning it was self-governing and subordinate only to the Emperor. and produced many men of the consular and senatorial ranks who served their homeland with great merit; but it also earned a famous name among men of knightly status in Silesia A historical region now mostly in Poland, then part of the Habsburg lands., that most beloved land, at the start of the 16th century. This is confirmed by the distinguished men Johann Sinapius in his Olsnographia A historical and geographical work about the Duchy of Oels in Silesia., Part I, p. 926 and Part II, p. 505; and Gottfried Dewerdeck in his Silesian Numismatics The study of coins and medals., p. 759, section 6 and p. 851. In that place, Dewerdeck mentions a medal struck in honor of Ludwig Pfintzing in the year 1560; compare also the latest edition of the Great Book of Coats of Arms original: des grossen Wappen-Buchs from the year 1699, where the Pfintzing coat of arms is found in the Silesian series on page 116 of Part III. From this book, Michael Joseph Fibiger—the late, illustrious Master of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star A Catholic military order founded in Bohemia.—supplemented the catalog of noble Silesian families in the revised Silesiographia of Henelius, Part II, chapter 8, page 768. Regarding the antiquity of this patrician family, an Anonymous author in the Historical News of Nuremberg original: Historischen Nachricht von Nürnberg from the year 1707, p. 92, did indeed bring forward some details, though they do not sufficiently clarify the family's origin—many more illustrious points could be added to them if they suited our present purpose. However, that author must be corrected by us on one point: the Pfintzing family by no means died out with Conrad Pfintzing in 1596, as he claims. Rather, it is certain to us from the most trustworthy documents that the Pfintzing family still flourishes in an uninterrupted line, and they can trace their ancestors back from the most ancient times...