Took from the opera “The City of the Sun” :
Knight : Tell me , pray tell, everything what happened in this navigation .
Genoese: I have already told how I turned the whole world, and then as I got to the Taprobana and I was forced to put in the ground, and then , fleeing the wrath of the townspeople , I reshelter , and left in a large plane just below the equinoctial .
Knight: Here happened that ?
Genoese: Immediately I met a large squadron of armed men and women , and many of them wanted to my tongue , which I led them to the City of the Sun
Knight : Of ‘ how it is made and how to govern this city .
Genoese: It is located in the large country a hill , above which is the majority of the city ; but come his rounds a lot of space out of the roots of the mountain, which is so much that the city is two miles in diameter and more , and comes to be seven-mile circle ; but , for the caliber , most households have , that you were in the plan.
It is a very large city divided into seven groups , named seven planets , and one enters from one to four roads and four-door , four corners of the world; but it is so that if he ran the first round , you have more labor per second, and then more ; with the result that seven oftentimes you have to capture it to win it. But I am of opinion, that you may not even the first , so it is big and embankment, and vanguard [bastions] , towers, moats and artillery from without .
Then walked to the door Tramontana , iron deck, made that rises and falls with beautiful genius , you see a plan of fifty yards between the first wall and the other . Following buildings are all united to the tour with the wall , you can tell that all may be one ; and above them han ravelins above columns, such as the cloisters of monks , and downstairs there is no income except from the concave models palaces. Then the rooms are beautiful with windows to the convex and concave , and are distinguished by small walls between them. Only the convex wall is roughly eight palms , the convavo three, the pimps a little more .
Below then you arrive on the second floor , which is two or three steps I miss , and you can see the second wall with them in ravelins out and strollers ; and from the inside , the other wall, greenhouse buildings in the middle of the cloister with the columns below and above beautiful paintings .
And so far surrenders to the supreme and always plans . Only when they enter the doors , which are double for the inner and outer walls , one ascends by degrees those who do not know, because they go sideways , and offshore are almost insensitive distinct scales .