The map of medieval Italy is known comes from the first edition of "Geography" of Ptolemy that has ever been accompanied by maps, printed in Rome in 1478.
It reflects the peninsula by resorting to information provided by the Alexandrian scholar in his work a thousand years before and therefore it i..
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