The island Sicily was in the 17th century part of the kingdom of Napels. As most of the maps of Italy this map by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaes_Visscher_II" class="extiw" title="en:Nicolaes Visscher II">Nicolaes Visscher II</a> (1649-1702) was a copy of an older map from the map book Italia by the Italian cartographer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Antonio_Magini" class="extiw" title="en:Giovanni Antonio Magini">Giovanni Antonio Magini</a> (1555-1617).
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Nicolaes_Visscher_II" class="extiw" title="w:en:Nicolaes Visscher II"><span title="Dutch engraver, cartographer, publisher">Nicolaes Visscher II</span></a>
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after 1681 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1681-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1681-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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