The Austrians in the Kingdom of Lombardy Venetia

In the years after the Congress of Vienna, Medernik had tried to integrate the region and people more completely into the Empire. The elite meanwhile were treated with a very high hand by their Austrian masters. And the old Italian nobility found themselves always treated one grade lower than they had been back at home. So an Italian duke visiting Vienna would be treated like a count, a count like a baron. This is seriously how these things got worked out.