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¶ Quatro insulete di cento in septanta
Miglia di giro ognuna a presso a licto
A men di venti e sum di lungi ottanta
L'una da l'altra per drito rito litto
Sum doppo Rodi a la prima si canta
Langho e poi l'altra che tien suo sito
Di contra ad alto luogo e dicta sciamo
Scio l'altra e l'altra metalim chiamo

¶ Ora intra nel destrecto de turchia
Ch'e circha septe miglia largo in bocca
In verso greco e sol per questa via
Il dicto mar nel mar magiore inbocca
E cento otanta miglia par che sia
Per dicto vento insin la dove tocha
Le mure de la imperial cita
Ch'en su l'altra piu strecta bocca sta

¶ La cita d'aveo sta nel comentiare
Da la man dextra dentro al dicto stretto
Unde verso aquilone a riguardare
Garipoli cita v'e dirimpetto
E poi piu su comincia a ralargare
E ben sexanta miglia ha di trageto
Da diaschillo ch'e par da man dextra
Fin alla bocca strecta da sinistra

[image, left margin: A map, orientated with the east at the top, depicting the cites that line the waterway, painted in aquamarine with grey waves, that connects the Aegean Sea to the Black Sea via the Dardenelles Straight and the Bosphorus Straight near Constantinople. The coastline is highlighted in yellow, and a reddish brown city with blue towers and domes sits on the landmass across the Dardanelles from Galipoli. The map also shows the island of Tenedo (label: Bozcaada), just south of the entrance to Dardanelles. Placenames, clockwise from 12 o'clock, in red ink (clockwise from the top): (label: Tarpi), (label: mezomondia), (label: palopoli), (label: Diaschilla), (label: Aveo), (label: tenedo). In red ink, rotated 180°, (label: Garipoli), (label: perra), (label: Costantinopuli).]

Four small islands—each one about seventy to one hundred
miles around, each one less than twenty [miles]
from the coast, and eighty [miles] apart
from each other straight along the shoreline—
come after Rhodes. The first is called
Lango^{1Now Kos.}; the next one, which sits
across from Altoluogo, is called Sciamo^{2Now Samos.};
the following one is Scio^{3Now Chios.}; and the last is called Metellino.^{4The island of Lesbos was generally known in this period by the name of its capital Mytilene.}

Now we enter the strait of Turkey^{5The Hellespont or Dardanelles},
which is about seven miles wide at its mouth,
and goes toward the northeast. This is the only way
the aforementioned sea^{6The Mediterranean.} flows into the Black Sea.^{7Mar Maggiore, literally the "Greater Sea", Mar Maggiore}
It is about one hundred and eighty miles
in this direction until you reach
the walls of the imperial city^{8Constantinople, now Istanbul},
which lies at the narrower mouth at the other end.

The city of Aveo^{6Ancient Abydos, now Canakkale, Turkey.} stands at the entrance
to the strait on the righthand side;
then if you look up toward the northeast,
the city of Gallipoli sits on the opposite side.
Further up it begins to get wider^{8into the Sea of Marmara.},
and there are a good sixty miles of passage
from Diaschilo^{9Ancient Daskyleion, now Ergili, Turkey—considered a port but actually 20 miles inland.}, which is also on the righthand side,
until [Constantinople] on the left at the narrow mouth.^{10"Narrow mouth" refers to the Bosphorus, the narrow strait separating the Sea of Marmara from the Black Sea. The city of Constantinople is on its left, i.e. the western shore, as you go northeast.}

¶ Quatro insulete di cento in septanta
Miglia di giro ognuna a presso a licto
A men di venti e sum di lungi ottanta
L'una da l'altra per drito rito litto
Sum doppo Rodi a la prima si canta
Langho e poi l'altra che tien suo sito
Di contra ad alto luogo e dicta sciamo
Scio l'altra e l'altra metalim chiamo

¶ Ora intra nel destrecto de turchia
Ch'e circha septe miglia largo in bocca
In verso greco e sol per questa via
Il dicto mar nel mar magiore inbocca
E cento otanta miglia par che sia
Per dicto vento insin la dove tocha
Le mure de la imperial cita
Ch'en su l'altra piu strecta bocca sta

¶ La cita d'aveo sta nel comentiare
Da la man dextra dentro al dicto stretto
Unde verso aquilone a riguardare
Garipoli cita v'e dirimpetto
E poi piu su comincia a ralargare
E ben sexanta miglia ha di trageto
Da diaschillo ch'e par da man dextra
Fin alla bocca strecta da sinistra

[image, left margin: A map, orientated with the east at the top, depicting the cites that line the waterway, painted in aquamarine with grey waves, that connects the Aegean Sea to the Black Sea via the Dardenelles Straight and the Bosphorus Straight near Constantinople. The coastline is highlighted in yellow, and a reddish brown city with blue towers and domes sits on the landmass across the Dardanelles from Galipoli. The map also shows the island of Tenedo (label: Bozcaada), just south of the entrance to Dardanelles. Placenames, clockwise from 12 o'clock, in red ink (clockwise from the top): (label: Tarpi), (label: mezomondia), (label: palopoli), (label: Diaschilla), (label: Aveo), (label: tenedo). In red ink, rotated 180°, (label: Garipoli), (label: perra), (label: Costantinopuli).]

Four small islands—each one about seventy to one hundred
miles around, each one less than twenty [miles]
from the coast, and eighty [miles] apart
from each other straight along the shoreline—
come after Rhodes. The first is called
Lango^{1Now Kos.}; the next one, which sits
across from Altoluogo, is called Sciamo^{2Now Samos.};
the following one is Scio^{3Now Chios.}; and the last is called Metellino.^{4The island of Lesbos was generally known in this period by the name of its capital Mytilene.}

Now we enter the strait of Turkey^{5The Hellespont or Dardanelles},
which is about seven miles wide at its mouth,
and goes toward the northeast. This is the only way
the aforementioned sea^{6The Mediterranean.} flows into the Black Sea.^{7Mar Maggiore, literally the "Greater Sea", Mar Maggiore}
It is about one hundred and eighty miles
in this direction until you reach
the walls of the imperial city^{8Constantinople, now Istanbul},
which lies at the narrower mouth at the other end.

The city of Aveo^{6Ancient Abydos, now Canakkale, Turkey.} stands at the entrance
to the strait on the righthand side;
then if you look up toward the northeast,
the city of Gallipoli sits on the opposite side.
Further up it begins to get wider^{8into the Sea of Marmara.},
and there are a good sixty miles of passage
from Diaschilo^{9Ancient Daskyleion, now Ergili, Turkey—considered a port but actually 20 miles inland.}, which is also on the righthand side,
until [Constantinople] on the left at the narrow mouth.^{10"Narrow mouth" refers to the Hellespont, the narrow strait separating the Sea of Marmara from the Black Sea. The city of Constantinople is on its left, i.e. the western shore, as you go northeast.}