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¶ Larissa ha intorno stagni et almagalle
Fra terra diserti insino al locho
Dov’e la trista e ben punita valle
Che vendicata fu da dio col fuocho
Quivi e un alto monte e poi le spalle
Del monte sinai piu la su un puocho
Su qual fu data la legie divina
Dov’e sepulta sancta chaterina

¶ Tra larissa e Baruti apunto in medio
Evi porto de la terra sancta
Che di colui doverebbe essere predio
Che capo de christiani esser si vanta
Dove quel digno Re tene'l suo sedio
Che fesse l’opra ch’ogni di si canta
Quel sancto sepulchro di ihesu
La dove crucifixo per noi fu

¶ Syon e questo capo di iudea
Verso levante un puocco a dextra mano
E da sinistra mano e galilea
E da levante sta il fiume giordano
E aman rita siegue cesarea
E achari surro saito e libano
Monte donde esce il fiume di dui fonti
Quive -e- carmelie altri sancti monti

[image, lower margin: Map depicting the coast of the Holy Land from Tarsus in Asia Minor to the Sinai Peninsula—the water painted aquamarine with grey waves; the coastline heightened yellow—with cities marked in red ink and Jerusalem depicted as a redish brown city with blue domes topped by crossestinted yellow. Underneath the city of Jerusalem sits a crennalated tower in reddish-brown topped by a single blue dome. Placenames, clockwise from left, in red ink: (label: Tarso), (label: laiaccia), (label: Alexandria), (label: Soldino), (label: lalecia), (label: Tortossa), (label: tripoli de Soria), (label: Baruti), (label: Saitto), (label: Surio), (label: Acri), (label: Cesarea), (label: Jerusalem), (label: giazara), (label: Giaffa), (label: Larissa).]

Larissa lies among marshes and swamps,
surrounded by lands deserted until that place,
the ill-fated and justly-rebuked valley
that was punished by God with fire.^1Sodom
Here is a high mountain, and then the flanks
of Mount Sinai, a little north of this point,
on top of which the Divine Law was given [to Moses]
and where Saint Catherine [of Alexandria] is buried.

Halfway between Larissa and Beirut
is the port ^2Jaffa of the Holy Land^Jerusalem
that should be the seat of the one
who claims to be the leader of the Christians,
where the High King holds his throne
who made the work^{3we are unsure what this refers to} that is sung about every day--
where the Holy Sepulcher of Jesus is
and where he was crucifixed for us.

This Zion ^{4another name for Jerusalem} is the capital of Judea
towards the East, a little to the righthand side .
On the lefthand side^{*ie., to revisit; super confusing} is Galilee
and to the east of that is the Jordan River.
On the righthand side, Caesarea comes next,
and Acre, Tyre, Sidon, and Mount Lebanon,
where the river issues from two sources.
Here is Mount Carmel and other holy mountains.

¶ Larissa ha intorno stagni et almagalle
Fra terra diserti insino al locho
Dov’e la trista e ben punita valle
Che vendicata fu da dio col fuocho
Quivi e un alto monte e poi le spalle
Del monte sinai piu la su un puocho
Su qual fu data la legie divina
Dov’e sepulta sancta chaterina

¶ Tra larissa e Baruti apunto in medio
Evi porto de la terra sancta
Che di colui doverebbe essere predio
Che capo de christiani esser si vanta
Dove quel digno Re tene'l suo sedio
Che fesse l’opra ch’ogni di si canta
Quel sancto sepulchro di ihesu
La dove crucifixo per noi fu

¶ Syon e questo capo di iudea
Verso levante un puocco a dextra mano
E da sinistra mano e galilea
E da levante sta il fiume giordano
E aman rita siegue cesarea
E achari surro saito e libano
Monte donde esce il fiume di dui fonti
Quive -e- carmelie altri sancti monti

[image, lower margin: Map depicting the coast of the Holy Land from Tarsus in Asia Minor to the Sinai Peninsula—the water painted aquamarine with grey waves; the coastline heightened yellow—with cities marked in red ink and Jerusalem depicted as a redish brown city with blue domes topped by crossestinted yellow. Underneath the city of Jerusalem sits a crennalated tower in reddish-brown topped by a single blue dome. Placenames, clockwise from left, in red ink: (label: Tarso), (label: laiaccia), (label: Alexandria), (label: Soldino), (label: lalecia), (label: Tortossa), (label: tripoli de Soria), (label: Baruti), (label: Saitto), (label: Surio), (label: Acri), (label: Cesarea), (label: Jerusalem), (label: giazara), (label: Giaffa), (label: Larissa).]

Larissa lies among marshes and swamps,
surrounded by lands deserted until that place,
the ill-fated and justly-rebuked valley
that was punished by God with fire.^1Sodom
Here is a high mountain, and then the flanks
of Mount Sinai, a little north of this point,
on top of which the Divine Law was given [to Moses]
and where Saint Catherine [of Alexandria] is buried.

Halfway between Larissa and Beirut
is the port ^2Jaffa of the Holy Land^Jerusalem
that should be the seat of the one
who claims to be the leader of the Christians,
where the High King holds his throne
who made the work^{3we are unsure what this refers to} that is sung about every day--
where the Holy Sepulcher of Jesus is
and where he was crucifixed for us.

This Zion ^{4another name for Jerusalem} is the capital of Judea
towards the East, a little to the righthand side.
On the lefthand side is Galilee
and to the east is the Jordan River.
On the righthand side, Caesarea comes next,
and Acre, Tyre, Sidon, and Mount Lebanon,
where the river issues from two sources.
Here is Mount Carmel and other holy mountains.