Editing Vicenza (section)

=== Early modern era ===
Vicenza was a candidate to host the [[Council of Trent]].

The 16th century was the time of [[Andrea Palladio]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Butler |first=Sophie |date=14 October 2009 |title=Vicenza: Who needs Venice? |work=Telegraph.co.uk |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/6324511/Vicenza-Who-needs-Venice.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/6324511/Vicenza-Who-needs-Venice.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=1 December 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> who left many outstanding examples of his art with palaces and villas in the city's territory, which before Palladio's passage, was arguably the most downtrodden and esthetically lacking city in Veneto.

After the [[Fall of the Venetian Republic]] in 1797, under [[Napoleonic Wars|Napoleonic]] rule, it was made a [[duché grand-fief]] (not a grand duchy, but a hereditary (extinguished in 1896), nominal duchy, a rare honor reserved for French officials) within Napoleon's personal [[Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)|Kingdom of Italy]] for general [[Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt|Caulaincourt]], also imperial Grand-Écuyer. One of the consequences of the city's occupation was the destruction of a prized silver model of the city, the [[Jewel of Vicenza]].