Rovigo, city, Veneto regione, northeastern Italy. Rovigo lies along the Adigetto Canal, south of Padua. Mentioned as Rodigo in a document of 838, it was ruled by the house of Este until it passed to Venice in 1482 and to Austria after 1797. It was annexed to Italy in 1866.

This is an image of the palace of Rovigo, Mary Shelley inserted multiple crucial historical places that were crucial in the formation of modern Italy. Rovigo was a fertile land in the northern seat of Italy.