A statue of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V depicts the Emperor dressed in warm weather Roman military attire. He is wearing a skirt with A cingulum militare around his waist. His upper chest is covered with a cloak fastened with a broach below the left shoulder. A sheathed sword hangs from straps on his left side. His right arm is outstretched at waist level and his hand is open palm down. His left arm is holding a baton that reaches his feet which are wearing sandals. On his head he is wearing a wreath of laurel leaves.
Four step lead up to an ornate marble base with a double headed eagle with outspread wings at the top. It is inscribed in Latin on four sides. Fortunately, the complete Latin inscription is contained in the following website:
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Front:
D.IACOBUS AGLIATA SYNDICUS
D.PHILIPPUS BONANNO COLUMNA
AEDILITII OPERIS PRAEFECTUS
CURAVERUNT
ANNO CHRI DOMINI MDCXXXI
MENSE AUGUSTO
D.O.M
CAROLO V
HASSIACO SAXONICO
GERMANICO HISPANICO GALLICO
AFRICANO TURCICO
MEXICANO PERUANO MOLUCENSI
IMPERATORI TER MAXIMO
NULLI VIRTUTE FELICITATE PIETATE SECUNDO
CUIUS AETATE DYNASTAE REGES HEROES
UND. CONGESTI SAECULO PL[ ]S DEBITI
REGNARUNT
UT UNIUS GLORIAE SERVIRENT
REGI SUO INVICTISSIMO BENERENTISSIMOQ.
CUM PLAUSU GRATA PANORMUS
D D D
Left Side:
PURGATORI EUROPAE
LERNEARUM HAERESEON EVERSORI
LUTHERICAE HYDRAE
QUAM NEC HERCULES PETISSET
EXTINCTORI
PANORMUS PIISSIMA D.D.
PLUS ULTRA
Back:
D.FRANCISCUS FERNANDUS DE LA CUEVA DUX
ALBUQUERQUII SICILIAE PROREX IMMORTALI REGÛ MEMORIAE
ET REGNI CAPITIS DECORI CONSULENS PROBAVIT
SENATUS PANORM. AD REGUM GLORIAM
ET URBIS ORNAMENTUM DECREVIT
D.FRANCISCUS VALGUARNERAE PRINCEPS ASSORI COMES PRAEF.
] D.PETRUS PALACIO HORATIUS LOMELLINO D.CAROLUS
] VOGLIA CAMPIXANO ANDREAS AGLIATA VESPASIANI
FILIUS FRANCISCUS DEL COLLE SIMON BONACOLTI
SENATORES
CAROLE IMPERATORUM
URBS REGIA PANORMUS TUA
EXTERMINANDIS BARBARIS
SUAS OLIM PORTAS ROBERTO ET ROGERIO
NORTMANNIS FRATRIBUS APERUIT ULTRO
TU DEINDE ALTERAM QUA SOL OCCIDET
INGRESSU TRIUMPHALI, ALTERAM QUA ORITUR
AFRICANIS MANUBIIS EXORNASTI
ILLA OFFICIOSA SUIS
LIBERATORIBUS EXORNATORIBUS
SINGULIS PONERET STATUAM
] ROBERTUS ET ROGERIUS TIBI
DE AREA NON CEDERENT CONTENTI
SUA DECORA SUA REGNA CONTINERI TUIS
QUARE [ ]M SUMMA
IN ARCE REGNI EXPUGNATORIS
UMBRAM TUI NOMINIS HOSTES TIMUERUNT
STANTIS VULTU[ ]RR[ ]
Right Side:
PROPAGATORI ORBIS
NOVARUM GENTIUM DOMITORI
ET HERCULEI, ET ROMANI IMPERII
FINIBUS SUPERATIS
PANORMUS P. GRATULABUNDA
The future Charles V was born into the House of Habsburg on February 24, 1500 in Ghent, Flanders, in the Habsburg controlled Netherlands. He was the son of the Philip I of Castile and Joanna I of Castile. He inherited a vast domain that made him Emperor over of half Europe and the part of the Americas that was recently discovered and conquered.
His main rival was Francis I, the King of Francis I, whom he defeated and captured on February 25, 1525 Carlo at the Battle of Pavia. In 1530 he was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope. He was the Holy Roman Emperor from June 28, 1519 until he abdicated as Holy Roman Emperor in favor of his brother Ferdinand on August 27, 1556. During his tenure he was confronted with the Protestant Reformation that was spreading through northern Europe.
His full title reveals the extent of his empire:
Charles, by the grace of God, Holy Roman Emperor, forever August, King of Germany, King of Italy, King of all Spains, of Castile, Aragon, León, of Hungary, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, Navarra, Grenada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Cordova, Murcia, Jaén, Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, King of Two Sicilies, of Sardinia, Corsica, King of Jerusalem, King of the Western and Eastern Indies, of the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Limburg, Luxembourg, Gelderland, Neopatria, Württemberg, Landgrave of Alsace, Prince of Swabia, Asturia and Catalonia, Count of Flanders, Habsburg, Tyrol, Gorizia, Barcelona, Artois, Burgundy Palatine, Hainaut, Holland, Seeland, Ferrette, Kyburg, Namur, Roussillon, Cerdagne, Drenthe, Zutphen, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgau, Oristano and Gociano, Lord of Frisia, the Wendish March, Pordenone, Biscay, Molin, Salins, Tripoli and Mechelen.