Guillaume Delisle's map, made at the beginning of the 18th century, shows southern Italy with Corsica and Sardinia according to ancient geography, identified as a whole as Magna Graecia. Drawn up on the basis of the scientific observations of the Académie Royale des Sciences, it reflects the critical approach of Delisle, one of the great reformers of French cartography, who was careful to correct traditional errors and remove imaginary lands. The Latin place names and territorial divisions follow the late Republican and Augustan Roman arrangement, offering a scholarly, antiquarian reading of southern Italy as a historically Hellenised space, in line with the 18th-century interest in classical geography.
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Print on handmade Amalfi paper Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in) With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in) Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges Frame: light brown beech wood and wood pulp, handmade
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