True Invention: That is, of the inventions which have been invented by the German nation

prize money, without any help or own protection, and set under so many insatiable desires and hostilities, torn apart, fragmented, and soon protected neither by the Western nor the Eastern Emperors as required and necessary.

This empire and imperial throne, then, could be attacked and made submissive to himself by no one other than such a victorious, invincible hero, who could first drive away the rebellious enemies and rebels with a strong armed hand—that is, push back the unjustified and overreaching desires of Desiderius, strike into the wind the weaker, powerless Eastern or Constantinopolitan princes, who indeed assumed they had a claim or title to it but in no way could maintain it with the appropriate power, and would be able to push them aside with great invincible power.

Such an invincible, powerful king and prince was at that time only our Emperor Carolus Magnus, who had under his power all of France and Germany (that is, those powerful and in the whole world feared Romans—never able to make them submissive) namely, such great, mighty populous lands and kingdoms, to which then also the more excellent part of Italy, Lombardy, was added.