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Built by Alphonso V. of Aragon in the fifteenth century, this massive pile, half-fortress and half-palace, is famous in Italian annals for its long association with the noble poetess Vittoria Colonna, Marchioness of Pescara.
Charles V totally changed the aspect of the palace from what it had formerly been half-fortress, half-residence and made of it a veritable palace in truth as well as in name, by the addition of numerous dependencies.
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