# Online map of renaissance/medieval italy **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 20, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-map-of-renaissance-medieval-italy/235420 "2004-03-20T17:38:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-map-of-renaissance-medieval-italy/235420/1 "2004-03-20T17:38:47Z")
I need help finding an online map of renaissance or medieval Italy. I’m basing an NWN campaign on that setting and would like to have a reference that is as detailed as possible. So far I’ve had some luck, but the best I’ve gotten is a small map with the name of major provinces. I need somehting that will detail atleast major towns/cities and smaller provinces. Anyone happen to know of such a resource online? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-map-of-renaissance-medieval-italy/235420/2 "2004-03-20T17:47:44Z")
[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/italy.html](http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/italy.html) Hopefully these will be as detailed as necessary. Otherwise, you’ll need to head to a good library - history books will have maps showing specific details, such as major political boundaries, centres of population, or whatever is being discussed, without being cluttered with other data. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-map-of-renaissance-medieval-italy/235420/3 "2004-03-20T17:57:10Z")
I presume you know of [this site](http://www.euratlas.com/big/big1500.htm)? Also you might get lucky in the collections listed in [this Open Directory category](http://dmoz.org/Reference/Maps/Historical/) ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-map-of-renaissance-medieval-italy/235420/4 "2004-03-20T18:01:27Z")
Wow, thanx a lot guys! ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-map-of-renaissance-medieval-italy/235420/5 "2004-03-20T18:03:42Z")
[http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~mapplace/EU/EU06-Rebellions/](http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~mapplace/EU/EU06-Rebellions/) try 1300, 1400, etc. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-map-of-renaissance-medieval-italy/235420/6 "2004-03-20T18:29:29Z")
**GorillaMan** beat me to the U Texas map page, but Fordham also has a map selection in their [Medieval Source Book](http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbookmap.html) with Italy showing up about half way down the page (10th century, 11th & 12th centuries, and Renaissance). Also check out the maps for the surrounding areas in the same time period, as borders tended to be a bit fluid. Surprisingly (to me) National Geographic had almost nothing usable on line for your needs. (My National Geographic maps on CD have a 1995 map that shows a 1486 map of Italy, and a 1949 map of the Classical Lands of the Mediterranean that has historic sites in italy marked in red, but I can’t find them on the web site.)