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¶ Quest'altra bocca ha di largo due miglia
E venti ad aquilone dura 'l canale
E giunge al mar magiore dove si piglia
Segondo il lito verso orientale
Una costiera novecento miglia
Che'nsino a trabisonda sum sue scalle
Carpi poi penderachia e samastoe
Castelle senoppi -e- Simissoe

¶ E sum dal'uno al'altro miglia cento
Uno per l'altro e qual men e qual piu
Cusi dal'altro mare anche sum cento
Sum da la Jacia insino da rodi giu
E dal'un mar al'altro quatrocento
E questo quadro antichamente fu
Dicto asia minor e dentro a se
Havea molte provencie e multi Re.

¶ Nel capo quasi d'esto quadro sta
Il monte thauro ch'e molto nominato
Il qual due corna ver ponente fa
Che vegon lungo l'uno e l'atro lato
Nel meço d'epso e ogi gran cita
Savasto ove'l el gran turcho sta honorato
Al pori di simisso da tramontana
E quasi al tarso da meridiana

[image, top and right margins and bas de page: Map of the southeastern Black Sea coast. Ocean painted aquamarine with wave pattern in grey, and a small, red horseshoe-shaped island at top. Bas de page, on a tributary flowing leftwards from the waters: a fortified city surrounding a church, all tinted reddish-brown with blue roofs and domes with yellow-tinted crosses. Below the city, in alternating red and blue, a caption proclaims (label: CONSTANTINOPOLI); above the dome, in red ink: (label: Sancta sophia). To the right, on the coastline, (label: Costantinopoli) and (label: perra) are given in red ink. Location names along the fore-edge coastline, in red ink (from upper margin, clockwise): (label: Peccionda), (label: Savastopoli), (label: Fascio), (label: Lovati), (label: trabisonda), (label: Chirizonda), (label: Vatiza), (label: Simissoe), (label: Sinopi), (label: Chastelle), (label: Samastoe), (label: pendarchia), (label: Tarpi), (label: nichomodia).]

This other mouth^{1The Bosphorus again.} is two miles across
and the winds blow toward the northeast along the channel
until it reaches the Black Sea.^{2Known in Dati's time as the "Larger Sea", Mare Maggiore.}
If you follow the shore toward the west
the coastline is nine hundred miles long
before you reach Trebizond.^{3Now Trabzon, Turkey.} The ports of call in between are:
Carpi^{4The first in a series of former Genoese colonies in Anatolia; now Kerpe, Turkey.}, followed by Penderachia^{5 Now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey.} and Samasto^{6Now Amasra, Turkey.},
then Castelli^7Cide, Sinope^{8Now Sinop, Turkey.}, and Simisso.^{9Now Samsun, Turkey.}

It is a hundred miles from one city to another:
sometimes a bit more or a little less from one to the next.
Thus it is six hundred miles from Laiazzo to Rhodes
and four hundred from one sea to the other.
In ancient times this rectangle was
called Asia Minor^11Anatolia., and within it
there were many provinces and many kings.

Near the top of this rectangle are
the renowned Taurus Mountains,
which form two ridges toward the west
that go along each side.^{12I.e., the rectangle of Asia Minor.}
Today there is a great city between them:
Savasto^{13Byzantine Sebasteia; now Sivas, Turkey.}, where the [rule of the] Grand Turk^{14"Gran turco" is probably a reference to the Ottoman sultan—either Mehmed I (r. 1413–21) or Murad II (r. 1421–51)—but it's unclear, since in Dati's time Sivas was the center of territory disputed by the Seljuks (Turks) and the successors of the Ilkhanids (Mongols) as well as the Ottomans.} is honored
all the way from Simisso in the north
nearly to Tarsus in the south.^{16From Samsun, Turkey, on the Black Sea, to Tarsus (now Mersin) on the Eastern Mediterranean.}

¶ Quest'altra bocca ha di largo due miglia
E venti ad aquilone dura 'l canale
E giunge al mar magiore dove si piglia
Segondo il lito verso orientale
Una costiera novecento miglia
Che'nsino a trabisonda sum sue scalle
Carpi poi penderachia e samastoe
Castelle senoppi -e- Simissoe

¶ E sum dal'uno al'altro miglia cento
Uno per l'altro e qual men e qual piu
Cusi dal'altro mare anche sum cento
Sum da la Jacia insino da rodi giu
E dal'un mar al'altro quatrocento
E questo quadro antichamente fu
Dicto asia minor e dentro a se
Havea molte provencie e multi Re.

¶ Nel capo quasi d'esto quadro sta
Il monte thauro ch'e molto nominato
Il qual due corna ver ponente fa
Che vegon lungo l'uno e l'atro lato
Nel meço d'epso e ogi gran cita
Savasto ove'l el gran turcho sta honorato
Al pori di simisso da tramontana
E quasi al tarso da meridiana

[image, top and right margins and bas de page: Map of the southeastern Black Sea coast. Ocean painted aquamarine with wave pattern in grey, and a small, red horseshoe-shaped island at top. Bas de page, on a tributary flowing leftwards from the waters: a fortified city surrounding a church, all tinted reddish-brown with blue roofs and domes with yellow-tinted crosses. Below the city, in alternating red and blue, a caption proclaims (label: CONSTANTINOPOLI); above the dome, in red ink: (label: Sancta sophia). To the right, on the coastline, (label: Costantinopoli) and (label: perra) are given in red ink. Location names along the fore-edge coastline, in red ink (from upper margin, clockwise): (label: Peccionda), (label: Savastopoli), (label: Fascio), (label: Lovati), (label: trabisonda), (label: Chirizonda), (label: Vatiza), (label: Simissoe), (label: Sinopi), (label: Chastelle), (label: Samastoe), (label: pendarchia), (label: Tarpi), (label: nichomodia).]

This other mouth^{1The Hellespont again.} is two miles across
and the winds blow toward the northeast along the channel
until it reaches the Black Sea.^{2Known in Dati's time as the "Larger Sea", Mare Maggiore.}
If you follow the shore toward the west
the coastline is nine hundred miles long
before you reach Trebizond.^{3Now Trabzon, Turkey.} The ports of call in between are:
Carpi^{4The first in a series of former Genoese colonies in Anatolia; now Kerpe, Turkey.}, followed by Penderachia^{5 Now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey.} and Samasto^{6Now Amasra, Turkey.},
then Castelli^7Cide, Sinope^{8Now Sinop, Turkey.}, and Simisso.^{9Now Samsun, Turkey.}

It is a hundred miles from one city to another:
sometimes a bit more or a little less from one to the next.
Thus it is six hundred miles from Laiazzo to Rhodes
and four hundred from one sea to the other.
In ancient times this rectangle was
called Asia Minor^11Anatolia., and within it
there were many provinces and many kings.

Near the top of this rectangle are
the renowned Taurus Mountains,
which form two ridges toward the west
that go along each side.^{12I.e., the rectangle of Asia Minor.}
Today there is a great city between them:
Savasto^{13Byzantine Sebasteia; now Sivas, Turkey.}, where the [rule of the] Grand Turk^{14"Gran turco" is probably a reference to the Ottoman sultan—either Mehmed I (r. 1413–21) or Murad II (r. 1421–51)—but it's unclear, since in Dati's time Sivas was the center of territory disputed by the Seljuks (Turks) and the successors of the Ilkhanids (Mongols) as well as the Ottomans.} is honored
all the way from Simisso in the north
nearly to Tarsus in the south.^{16From Samsun, Turkey, on the Black Sea, to Tarsus (now Mersin) on the Eastern Mediterranean.}