[Recommendatio operis per auctorem strenuo viro
Domino Francisco Dandulo inclito duci Venetiarum]
Accipe, Dandulea Venetum dux inclite prole,
Quem fecere ducem genus et sapientia, mores,
5Eloquium, virtus, multa experientia recti,
Hoc, Francisce, mei munus non grande libelli
Exterius, tamen intus habens pregrandia sceptro
A dominis mundi merito data dona ducali.
Hoc ego Bassani, quod do tibi, natus amena.
10In patria et toto cum munere suscipe vatem,
Quippe tuo patrieque tue felicis honori
Castellanus amans felicia carmina dono.
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