67r

On the Description of the Earth

O Highest Master, True Creator,
who made the heavens, the earth,
and all that is contained and lies within them,
grant through Your grace and through Your gift
that I may proceed, as is pleasing to You,
with a clear style and perfect sound,
to depict the lands and seas and winds
so that we have a good understanding of them.

Zones

One draws four lines to show
the areas^{1alternate readings list "siti"} of the earth and each partition
from the East to the setting [sun].
As you can see, five zones appear,
and there are eight winds for sailing,
and each is called a whole, a half, or a quarter wind.
These [names] shed light on [the drawing's] correct intepretation,
and how to understand which direction [the wind blows].

On the Winds

Zephyr is the wind we call Ponente^{1All winds are provided by giving classicizing names and their vernacular equivalents in the following order: west wind (Zephyr/Ponente); northwest wind (Mistral/Choro); north wind (Aquilo/Tramontana); northeast wind (Boreas/Greco); east wind (Eurus/Levante); southeast wind (Noto); south wind (Sirocco/Africone); southwest wind (Libeccio/Garbino/Auster).};
Mistral is Coro; Aquilo
is called Tramontana; then the next one
is Boreas, called Greco. Eurus is also called
Levante; its neighbor Noto
has the name Scirocco, and Africone follows
in the south; then the last one in the roster
[is] Libeccio or Garbino, which is called Auster.