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[addition, in pencil, in modern hand: La Sfera Poema di Goro Dati.]

[rubric, in alternating red and blue letters, enclosed in penwork box tinted yellow: ⸫ QUI : INCOMENCIA ⸫
BRUNETO : LATINO :~~~
SALUTACIO]

AL padre al figlio al spirito sancto
Per ogne seculo sia gloria e honore
E benedecto sia suo nome quanto
Tute le creature hano valore
Laudato e rengratiato in ogni canto
Cum pura mente e cum divoto cuore
E confesata sia la sua bontade
Pieta misericordia e caritade

[rubric: Peticio]

¶ Dolce signor apri le labra mie
Illumina el mio cor con la tua luce
E la mia bocca annuntii le tue vie
Piene di lode e sii sempre mio duce
E in aiutorio mio intendi e sie
Con la tua gratia che 'l mondo conduce
Il mio dir sia consolatione e fructo
De tuti quilli che 'ntendon tal constructo

[rubric: Prohemio.]

¶ Ad ogne cor gentil e mente pura
Che desidera d’intendere la ragione
Con la qual si governa la natura
Da un principio che prima chagione
E unde ha l'esser ogni creatura
E di lor qualita e conditione
Dico che legano I versi seguenti
Chiamando idio con gli animi attenti

[initial: Opening initial /A/, 4-lines in gold, on pink and green grounds with white and gold penwork, outlined in black.]

{The Globe, a Poem by Goro Dati}

HERE BEGINS
BRUNETTO LATINI
GREETINGS

To the Father to the Son to the Holy Spirit,
For every century be glory and honor,
And blessed be his name as much
All creatures have value:
Praised and thanked in every song
With pure mind and with devout heart,
And confessed to be his goodness,
Pity, mercy and charity.

Sweet Lord, open my lips,
Illuminate my heart with your light,
And my mouth proclaims your ways
Full of praise; and always be my Duce
To my adultery he means and sie
With your grace that the world leads
It is my saying both consolation and fruit
Of all those who understand this construct.

To every gentle heart and pure mind,
Who wishes to understand the rules
by which Nature is governed
From a beginning which is the first cause,
and each creature has its own form
and its quality and condition
I say they read the following verses,
Calling God with an attentive soul.

[addition, in pencil, in modern hand: La Sfera Poema di Goro Dati.]

[rubric, in alternating red and blue letters, enclosed in penwork box tinted yellow: ⸫ QUI : INCOMENCIA ⸫
BRUNETO : LATINO :~~~
SALUTACIO]

AL padre al figlio al spirito sancto
Per ogne seculo sia gloria e honore
E benedecto sia suo nome quanto
Tute le creature hano valore
Laudato e rengratiato in ogni canto
Cum pura mente e cum divoto cuore
E confesata sia la sua bontade
Pieta misericordia e caritade

[rubric: Peticio]

¶ Dolce signor apri le labra mie
Illumina el mio cor con la tua luce
E la mia bocca annuntii le tue vie
Piene di lode e sii sempre mio duce
E in aiutorio mio intendi e sie
Con la tua gratia che 'l mondo conduce
Il mio dir sia consolatione e fructo
De tuti quilli che 'ntendon tal constructo

[rubric: Prohemio.]

¶ Ad ogne cor gentil e mente pura
Che desidera d’intendere la ragione
Con la qual si governa la natura
Da un principio che prima chagione
E unde ha l'esser ogni creatura
E di lor qualita e conditione
Dico che legano I versi seguenti
Chiamando idio con gli animi attenti

[initial: Opening initial /A/, 4-lines in gold, on pink and green grounds with white and gold penwork, outlined in black.]

To the Father to the Son to the Holy Spirit,
For every century be glory and honor,
And blessed be his name as much
All creatures have value:
Praised and thanked in every song
With pure mind and with devout heart,
And confessed to be his goodness,
Pity, mercy and charity.

Sweet Lord, open my lips,
Illuminate my heart with your light,
And my mouth proclaims your ways
Full of praise; and always be my Duce
To my adultery he means and sie
With your grace that the world leads
It is my saying both consolation and fruit
Of all those who understand this construct.

To every gentle heart and pure mind,
Who wishes to understand reason
With which Nature is governed
From a beginning which is the first cause,
And whence every creature has lesser
And of their quality and condition
I say they read the following verses,
Calling God with an attentive soul.