Medicina

Medicina lies in the lowlands east of Bologna. Its community retained privileges and a measure of local autonomy within the changing political landscape of the Bolognese countryside. Local officers administered the district; records of the vicariate survive from the fifteenth century onward.

In the early sixteenth century Cesare Borgia's forces occupied and plundered the area. Pope Julius II subsequently confirmed Medicina's privileges and granted a Thursday market in 1507. Disputes with Bologna over duties and tolls continued through the century, showing that the market town's relationship with its larger neighbour involved both commercial ties and contested rights.