"Pavia la dotta."

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

"Yes! pleased, on our land, from his azure way, The Sun ever smiles with unclouded ray. But never, fair isle, shall th…"

"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…"

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

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

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

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

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