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But it proved to be the most fruitful, all too tempting to the acquisitive appetites of France, Spain, and rival Italian duchies and city-states such as Venice, which pushed its Serene Republic as far west as Bergamo.
A new national fraternity of scholars with expertise in the arts, sciences, and law emerged as itinerant consultants to visionary rulers eager to make their city-states centers of cultural prestige and political propaganda.
In Emilia-Romagna, the pride and creativity of the great city-states is still very much in evidence in the monuments and museums of Bologna, Ferrara, and Parma.
At the same time, city-states began to grow in influence on the southern Greek mainland.
While mainland Greece was reaching its zenith during the Classical Age (480–338 b.c.), the island remained a backwater of warring city-states, of which Górtis was the most powerful.