If there is one lesson to be learned from the enigmatic and millennial history of Austria, it is that of the great vitality of the “nations”. Where empires pass away, national spaces survive historical vicissitudes. Because the former Margrave of Austria, as evoked for the first time in a
History of the Lombards
written in the 780s in Mont-Cassin, will become the powerful empire of Charles V which was already "multicultural" before the letter since the great emperor is credited with this famous word:
"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse."
Suffice to say that the Germanic space was not at the center of his concerns. It was especially his son Ferdinand, who was passionate about the new Danubian monarchy.
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