Carena
- Modern name
- Atlas Mountains
- Coordinates
- 15.5, 32.56
Dati refers to Charena as un monte di miglia trecento / "a mountain [range] 300 miles long" (3.34.5-6), and associates it with the Atlas mountains, a range that stretches across north Africa. The Catalan or Cresques Atlas explains: "All this mountain range is called Carena by the Saracens and Claris Mountains by the Christians."
This toponym does not appear in the poem, only on the maps accompanying it.
Map of the location P070
Variant spellings of Carena in Sfera manuscripts
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- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Carena.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, February 10, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/carena/.