Sardinia
- Ancient name
- Sardinia
- Modern name
- Sardinia
- Modern country
- Italy
- Coordinates
- 40.07, 8.9
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364335
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea after Sicily; it lies north of Sicily and off the west coast of Italy. Its largest city, now as formerly, is Cagliari at the southern tip of the island. In Dati's lifetime, control of the islands of Sardinia and Corsica was contested between autonomous Sardinian rulers, the Genoese, and the Aragonese (who also controlled Sicily and the Balearic islands)—but by 1420 Sardinia was firmly under Aragonese control. Note that some spelling variants for Sardinia (sardigna) overlap or get confused with those for the Spanish city of Salobreña (salavigna).
The toponym Sardinia appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P121
Variant spellings of Sardinia in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| ghuardigniano | Ricc15 |
| sar[dinia] | Pnc3 |
| sardegnia | NB |
| Sardiga | Fo, Vat3 |
| SArdigmA | Ricc9 |
| Sardigna | BL02, Barb3, Chig1, Chig2, Fn6, Fn9, He2, Luc2, Med1, NYPL1, New, Pad1, Ricc11, Yale4 |
| SARDIGNA | BL01, Cors2, Par3, Wie1 |
| sardigna | Laur5, ME2, Med2, NYPL3, Pal6, Pal8, Per2, Ricc8, Ro2 |
| Sardignia | Pal5, Pnc4, Ricc1, Ricc14 |
| sardignia | Bal, Con1, Fn3, Magl4, Marc1 |
| SARDIGNIA | Pnc5 |
| SARDINGA | Med3 |
| Sardingna | Fn8, Magl2 |
| sardingna | Par1 |
| Sardingnia | Cap1, Con4, Cs1, Ricc12 |
| SARDINGNIA | Laur3 |
| Sardinia | Clas2, MB, Parm2 |
| sarvigina | Ashb3 |
| ysola de sardignia | Tre |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Sardinia.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/sardinia/.