De quatuor summis imperiis [electronic resource] : an historical account of the four chief monarchies or empires of the world, viz. I. The Assyrian, or Babylonian. II. The Persian. III. The Grecian. IV. The Roman, continued down to the beginning of the reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth : being a relation of the most considerable occurrences that have happened in the world from Noah's flood to the year of Our Lord J.C. 1520 / written in Latin by John Sleidan, sometime ambassador in England from the Protestant states of Germany, deputy for the city of Strasburg in the Council of Trent; and author of The history of the reformation in Germany ; now newly Englished.