Montalcino, since the conquest of Siena by…

Montalcino, since the conquest of Siena by Florence under the Medici family in 1555, has held out for almost four years under a Republican government of seven hundred Sienese families, but ultimately falls in 1559 to the Florentines, under whose control it will remain until the Grand Duchy of Tuscany is amalgamated into a united Italy in 1861.