Italia Meridionale isole di Sicilia e adiacenti

Decorative map of Sicily published in the Atlante di geografia universale preceduto da un vocabolario de' nomi tecnici della geografia, corredato di specchi statistici delle divisioni politiche della terra, ed arricchito d'illustrazioni e di una bilancia politica del globo per servire al corso di geografia universale, by Marmocchi. Published from 1838 onwards, it was considerably supplemented and expanded over the years.

Marmocchi (Poggibonsi, 1805 - Geneva, 1858) was a well-known geographer and cartographer. In relations with Mazzini, he was involved in the political uprisings of 1831 and suffered harsh persecution that went as far as imprisonment by the Grand Ducal government. Elected in 1848 deputy to the Tuscan Parliament, he was appointed by grand-ducal decree Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior then held by Guerrazzi. Then emigrated to Rome, and even after in Corsica, which searched at length with Gregorovius, then settled in Turin and, finally, in Genoa, where he remained for the rest of his life attending mainly to geographical compilations.

Litograph with contemporary colouring, paper with slight and uniform browning, otherwise in good condition.