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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 627 — Chapter X · MODERN LATIN POETRY.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

‘De mirabili urbe Venetiis’ (Opera, fol. 38 b):

Viderat Adriacis Venetam Neptunus in undis Stare urbem et toto ponere jura mari: Nunc mihi Tarpejas quantum vis Juppiter arceis Objice et illa tui mœnia Martis ait, Si pelago Tybrim praefers, urbem aspice utramque Illam homines dices, hanc posuisse deos.

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