Two Orations on Peace, one praising the peace that has been made, the other composed to urge it, when the envoys of princes and peoples had gathered from all sides at The Hague and Delft to explore terms for making peace

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Original title: Orationes duae de pace, quarum altera factam laudans, altera ad suadendam composita, quum legati principum et populorum undique Hagam et Delphos convenissent ad tentandas pacis faciendae rationes A pair of Latin academic orations delivered by Jacobus Perizonius, Leiden's professor of eloquence and history, who speaks as bearing the public person of the Leiden Academic Senate. The speeches concern the Peace of Rijswijk (1697), which ended the war between Louis XIV's France and the coalition led by William III. The first is an epideictic thanksgiving for the concluded peace. The second, headed 'Cohortatio ad faciendam pacem', is a deliberative exhortation composed while envoys met at The Hague and Delft to negotiate. The orations define war as bestial rage born of avarice and as conquest without just title, call Alexander the greatest robber of all ages, and prefer the olive to the laurel. They set European liberty against France's pursuit of universal dominion and describe how states combine against any power that rises too high. They also present commerce as the chief sinew of the Dutch Republic and give peace a theological standing. The orations include addresses to Louis XIV, Leopold I and William III, and they conclude that peace among Christians should be joined to perpetual war against the Turks. The work was printed at Leiden 'apud Fredericum Haringium' as a quarto of about 62 pages. Catalogue records variously date the imprint 1697 or 1698. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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448 L 279 Early European Books, Copyright 2011 ProQuest LLC. Images reproduced by courtesy of Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag. 448 L 279