"O Milan, O the chanting quires, The giant windows’ blazon’d fires, The height, the space, the gloom, the glory! A mou…"

"Tarentum calls On you her wooers, no unworthy bride; Chief harbour, richest mart of Italy. Whither Philanthus, in Lac…"

"First of old of Oscan towns! Prize of triumphs, pearl of crowns; Half a thousand years have fled, Since arose thy roy…"

"And next Tarentum’s bay, Named, if report be true, from Hercules, Is seen; and opposite lifts up her head The goddess…"

"Then there is Amalfi, the most prosperous town in Lombardy, the most noble, the most illustrious on account of its co…"

"Sweet the memory is to me Of a land beyond the sea, Where the waves and mountains meet, Where amid her mulberry-trees…"

"There would I linger, then go forth again; And he who steers due east, doubling the cape, Discovers, in a crevice of …"

"A wealthy and populous city, none richer in silver, gold and garments from innumerable places."

"It is the mid-May sun that, rayless and peacefully gleaming, Out of its night’s short prison this blessed of lands is…"

"Pavia the learned."