Antica Carta Corografica Strategica della Sicilia

An uncommon map of Sicily based on the map of the Royal Topographical Office of Naples published in 1826. The map, published as a loose sheet, is not dated, but it is probably one of the many representations of the island published around 1860 to meet the demands of a market attentive to the political and military events of that period. In April 1860 the revolt of the city of Palermo against the Bourbons of Naples had begun, on 11 May Garibaldi’s troops had landed on the Sicilian coast near Marsala, and in July the whole island had been conquered. The detailed map presents a careful representation of the orography and in general a precise lithographic stroke and an elegant choice of characters for the toponymy. At the bottom is the insert with the Maltese archipelago, the legend of conventional signs and the graphic scales of distances expressed in kilometres and Sicilian miles. Bottom left is the signature of A(angelo) Leonardi editore, Torino via di Po 10.

Carta Corografica Strategica della Sicilia

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