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[rubric: Luna.]

¶ La luna e tra pianeti el piu sottano
E che piu tardi compie sua giornata
Suo cielo e transparente diafano
Come sum li altri unde non e celata
La vista si che si raguardi in vano
Per tute in sino a la spera stellata
Perche ha dilecto remirar in quelle
Chiar pianeti e relucente stelle

[rubric: Obscuracion del solle.]

¶ Ma lo suo corpo Io dico de la luna
Perche e solido e denso e non transpare
Quand'ella s'interpone in parte alcuna
Tra'l sole e noi per linea rita et uguale
Sotto i suo raggi ci si monstra bruna
E a noi non gli lassa trapassare
E a le impresse e quando l'e compiuta
De vechia in nova in quel puncto si muta

[rubric: Varacion de la luna.]

¶ Sença lume da se mutata scura
Quanta ne vede il sole tanta n'acende
Per questo e variabil sua figura
Perche tra su e giu meça resplende
E quanto -e- piu distante sua misura
Dal sole tanto ogni di piu lume rende
Sopra a la terra e quando si repressa
Ogni di scema suo lume da epsa

[image, right margin at ¶ 1: Pen-drawn diagram of a circle within a circle representing an eclipse. Area between inner circle and outer circle partially tinted blue in bottom half of diagram, and partially tinted yellow in top half of diagram. Positioned between circles, at 12 o’clock: a blue crescent moon. Positioned external to circles, at 12 o’clock: a sun in splendour, tinted yellow. At centre of diagram: a small sphere tinted grey. Two straight lines radiate from small grey sphere, intersecting outermost circle between 11 and 12 o’clock, and between 12 and 1 o’clock. Between these lines, two additional straight lines radiate from small grey sphere to innermost circle; area between additional straight lines tinted grey.]

[image, right margin at ¶ 3: Pen-drawn diagram of a circle within a circle representing the phases of the moon. Area between inner circle and outer circle partially tinted blue in bottom half of diagram, and partially tinted yellow in top half of diagram. Positioned external to circles, at 12 o’clock: a sun in splendour, tinted yellow. At centre of diagram: a small sphere, labelled with black ink, and tinted half yellow and half grey (label: Terra). Inner circle bisects three further spheres, located at 3 o’clock, 6 o’clock, and at 10 o’clock, each tinted half yellow and half grey. Yellow halves of all four spheres face towards sun in splendour.]

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Laura K. Morreale LLC

line 5; we need to explain that "its heaven" refers to the sphere of the moon.