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My title, “Goodly Frame, Spotty Globe”, quotes from two of the greatest writers of the Renaissance, both of whom spent considerable time in Italy, even in Padova. I refer of course to those distinguished Italian poets, William Shakespeare and John Milton.
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Carroll, W.C. (2001). Goodly Frame, Spotty Globe: Earth and Moon in Renaissance Literature. In: Barbieri, C., Rampazzi, F. (eds) Earth-Moon Relationships. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0800-6_2
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