Sicut dies quoque obscura Magister Guido Francesca Battista transcription by main editor Fulvio Delle Donne BUP - Basilicata University Press Potenza 2026 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Magistri Guidonis Opera, ed. Elisabetta Bartoli, Firenze: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014, VII, 21, p. 146. Guido-13

An "exordium" of a model love letter.

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Sicut dies quoque obscura sua claritate dilucidat et obryzum coloris sui puritate cetera metalla superat sic, uxor karissima, vel amica dulcissima, tue facieif color tamque smaragdus splendet vel preradiat, et totius albedo corporis nimium candore plus albicat.