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Jean Janvier - Janvier Map of Italy - Italian Peninsula - Corsica, Sardinia. ”L'Italie divisee en ses differents etats Royaumes et Republiques” A beautiful example of Le Sieur Janvier's decorative map of Italy. Janvier's map covers from the Gulf of eyon eastward to include all of Corsica, Sardinia, Italy, the Adriatic, and parts of Hungary and Turkey in europe. It extends southwards to include adjacent parts of Africa and northwards as far as Lake Geneva. An elaborate title cartouche featuring Papal accoutrements appears in the lower left quadrant. A secondary cartouche bearing a six distance scales appears in the lower right. This map shows the Italian peninsula prior to its struggle for national solidarity which would emerge as a movement about 50 years later in the early 19th century. The peninsula is divided into numerous independent states, duchies, republics, kingdoms and, of course, the Papal States (States of the Church).