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Later, the island became part of the commercial empires of Pisa, Genoa, and the Spanish, and was annexed in 1718 by the dukes of Savoy.
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.
The pragmatic dukes of Piedmont liked French-style absolutist monarchy but tempered it with a parliament to bypass local fiefdoms.
The area was dominated in the past by the papacy, which conquered the Lombard dukes of Spoleto in the Middle Ages, Perugia in the 16th century, and held sway until the unification of Italy.
Once the home of the Dukes of Bragança, it fell into disrepair and was reconstructed from ruin in the 1930s.