Stanza 1

Boccaccio:

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Petrarch:

Ceterum pars illa terrarum de qua primum dixi, que et grata planitie et interiectis collibus ac montibus circumflexis, aprica pariter ac iocunda est, atque ab eorum quibus subiacet pede montium nomen tenet, et civitates aliquot et opida habet egregia.

Now that part of these lands, of which I spoke first, is sunny and delightful, as much for the hills which run through it and the mountains which hem it in, as for its grateful plain. From the foot of the mountains beneath which it lies, it derives its name; and it has many famous cities and towns.


Chaucer:

Ther is, at the west syde of Ytaille,
Doun at the roote of Vesulus the colde,
A lusty playne, habundant of vitaille,
Where many a tour and toun thou mayst biholde
That founded were in tyme of fadres olde,
And many another delitable sighte,
And Saluces this noble contree highte.

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