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A mere half-hour’s drive from Bologna on the autostrada takes you to this stronghold of the high-living d’Este dukes — archetypal scheming, murderous, lovable Renaissance villains who ruled from 1200 to 1600.
(I'm duty-bound to point out, by the way, that Bush's answers--General and Lee--may inadvertently tell us something about him: He's a Dukes of Hazzard fan.)
The charming Rococo palace, found through a small side gate just to the left of the church steps in the town center, once belonged to the Dukes of Estói.
Towards the end of the first millennium the land we now call the Netherlands was ruled by a number of feudal lords — assorted counts, dukes, and bishops who had total power over the land and the people who lived on it.
In any case, large portions of France were independently controlled by powerful dukes whose allegiance to the king was only nominal.