Ancient Italy was separated, on the north, by the Alps, from Germany.
It was bounded, on the east and north-east, by the Adriatic Sea, or Mare Superum; on the south-west, by a part of the Mediterranean, called the Tuscan Sea, or Mare Inferum; and on the south, by the Fretum Siculum, called at present the strait of Messina..
Ancient Italy was separated, on the north, by the Alps, from Germany