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LOVE IT! Seth 04:33, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Great map!--Pedromoderno 14:50, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Version 5

I made some changes to the latest version based on the evidence I could find.

• In Umbria, I expanded Urbino and Spoleto to match internal divisions of the Papal States, from which the area presumably was annexed. (Source)
• In Tuscany, I moved "Vetulonia" to the only place I could find by that name - a pre-Roman ruin very close to Piombino. It may be that Decameron had in mind a successor to the Spanish Presidios, in which case, Vetulonia is almost certainly superceded by Piombino. The great revelation for "Tyrrhenia" is that its flag is actually the flag of the tiny Republic of Cospaia, on the border between Tuscany and Umbria. Maybe a revolutionary Republic of Tyrrhenia ended up fleeing to Cospaia, taking advantage of its odd status, and managed to hold on to a little perimeter of land to the west of it. That's what's shown on the map, anyway. Of course, Decameron's work, ever cryptic, contradicts this by mentioning a "Prince of Tyrrhenia" somewhere.
• Around Liguria, I adjusted Alba and Ceva to match the territories of the historic marquisates (source). I suspect that Sectori only made Ceva a very big province on his map because Queen Luisa is from there and he got rid of the other small Decameronian states. This makes Piedmont look a bit more like the historic Piedmont. It appears, by the way, that the House of Savoy did quite badly *there*, since it failed to absorb Montserrat and Saluzzo and lost Aosta. Finally, I changed "Ormea." There is a town in Liguria called Ormea, but it has no history whatsoever of independence. On the other hand, there is a coastal town called Oneglia that was separate from Liguria throughout early modern times, actually a Piedmontese exclave that gave it access to the sea. On the new map, Oneglia replaces Ormea.
• This leaves "Venda" as the only place that continues to elude me. The only place in Italy that I could find by that name is Monte Venda, a wooded hill on the outskirts of Padua. I have no idea what Decameron could have had in mind besides some kind of ecotopic microrepublic.

Benkarnell 16:57, 29 April 2012 (PDT)