ABSTRACT
“Sicania, 1 neighbor of the Aeolian Lipari and the actual place for the forge of the Cyclops, contains the lands where my father was born–close to those parts where the Palici, 2 hidden by their mother, completed the time of the womb. When he had been to the city of the Arno and had visited the Florentine temples set as sites for its visitors (in which the business cunning of Mercury is more adored than Venus’ deity) while returning, he by chance passed through the plains lying below the rich Mount Gargano, consecrated to the holy goddess Ceres. And there he saw a maiden, whose parents, for whatever the reason, had become enemies of Saturnia 3 and lived hidden in the caverns of the mount, not daring to show themselves under the open sky until they had concluded a peace.
