CARTOGRAPHY “Primary cities of Italy, their population and historical and statistical division of individual states”

CARTOGRAPHY “Primary cities of Italy, their population and historical and statistical division of individual states”. Political map of mid-nineteenth century Italy: Sardinian State, Canton Ticino, Duchy of Parma, Duchy of Modena, Kingdom of Naples, Republic of San Marino, Papal States, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italian Tyrol, Dalmatia and Illyria, Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto, Island of Malta, Island of Corsica. “The geographical boundaries of Italy were determined and by the quality of the soil called natural borders, and by the peoples who speak the medesimnalingua and who were aggregated for the past to Italy.” Detail of Table XIII from “The Geography at a glance”, Lithografia Corbetta, Milan, 1853.