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La grand’ anima del Mondo
Sta come auriga, e ’n questa cieca mole
Infusa, muove le stellate sfere.
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P. 678.
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Translation: The world’s great soul Doth stand like charioteer, and this blind mass Pervading, doth control the starry spheres.
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 343.

 

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