<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" style="font-size:11pt">The goal of Bibliotheca Hertziana's project "Historical spaces in texts and maps" is to investigate the relations between historic geographical texts and maps to reconstruct a historical understanding of space and the knowledge associated with it. Starting with a cognitive-semantic analysis of Flavio Biondo's "Italia Illustrata" (1474), first of all, toponyms, place descriptions and spatial relations are annotated in the text and Renaissance maps. Our contribution to Spatial Humanities is based on the conviction that all maps are cognitive maps, depicting culture-specific spatial knowledge and practices (Goerz et al., 2018, 2019).</hi>