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"Poscia che Costantin l'aquila volse | 1 | 'Once Constantine reversed the eagle's flight, | |||||
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contr' al corso del ciel, ch'ella seguio | 2 | counter to the course of heaven it had followed | |||||
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dietro a l'antico che Lavina tolse, | 3 | behind that ancient who took Lavinia to wife, | |||||
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cento e cent' anni e più l'uccel di Dio | 4 | 'for two hundred years and more the bird of God | |||||
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ne lo stremo d'Europa si ritenne, | 5 | remained at Europe's borders, | |||||
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vicino a' monti de' quai prima uscìo; | 6 | near the mountains from which it first came forth. | |||||
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