"In the extreme part of this island, there is a fresh water source named Arethusa, of incredible width, very full of f…"

"Stretched in front of a bay of Sicily lies an islet over against wavebeat Plemyrium; they of old called it Ortygia. H…"

"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…"

"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 …"