Lucca

Piazza dell'Anfiteatro and the Basilica of San Frediano

The courtyard of Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi

Puccini's statue on Piazza Cittadella created by Vito Tongiani

City and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea.

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Giacomo Puccini

Italian composer known primarily for his operas.

Puccini's birthplace, seen in 1984 during restoration work

Giacomo Puccini with conductor Arturo Toscanini

Puccini with his wife Elvira and son Antonio, 1900

Puccini was born Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini in Lucca, Italy, in 1858.

Luigi Boccherini

Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centres.

Boccherini playing the cello. Pompeo Batoni (c. 1764–1767)

Boccherini was born into a musical family in Lucca, Italy in 1743.

Tuscany

Thornthwaite climate classification of Tuscany

The Chimera of Arezzo, Etruscan bronze, 400 BC

Hanging and burning of Girolamo Savonarola in Piazza della Signoria in Florence 1498 - Painting depicting Renaissance Florence

Memorial to the victims of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre, in which 560 locals were murdered by Nazi Germans and Italian Fascists in 1944

A painting from the Sienese School by Pietro Lorenzetti

Tuscan poet and literary figure Petrarch

An assortment of Tuscan foods: various wine and cheese, and different sorts of salamis and hams

The Via de' Tornabuoni in Florence, the city's top fashion and shopping street, contains some of the world's most luxurious clothing and jewelry houses, such as Cartier, Ferragamo, Gucci, Versace and Bulgari

Sunflower field near Castiglione della Pescaia, Maremma

Tuscan landscape near Barga between the Apuan Alps and the Apennine Mountains

A page from Fibonacci's Liber Abaci (1202)

Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy

Niccolò Machiavelli, author of The Prince

Cosimo I de' Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany

Pinocchio, created by Carlo Collodi (1883)

The main tourist spots are Florence, Pisa, San Gimignano, Lucca, Castiglione della Pescaia, Grosseto and Siena.

Alfredo Catalani

Italian operatic composer.

Born in Lucca, Catalani was trained at the Milan Conservatory, where his teachers included Antonio Bazzini.

Third longest river in the Italian region of Tuscany at 126 km, coming after the Arno at 242 km and the Ombrone, 161 km. By mean rate of flow, it is the second largest, smaller than Arno but larger than Ombrone.

Having reached the plain of Lucca, where it is joined by the torrent Freddana, the Serchio turns westwards, crosses the “straits” of Filettole, and enters the Province of Pisa.

Pope Lucius III

Pope Lucius III (c.

Depiction of Lucius III from the Liber ad honorem Augusti by Peter of Eboli (1196)

Born of an aristocratic family of Lucca, prior to being elected pope, he had a long career as a papal diplomat.

Matilda of Tuscany

Member of the House of Canossa (also known as the Attonids) and one of the most powerful nobles in Italy in the second half of the eleventh century.

Matilda of Canossa and Hugh of Cluny as advocates of Henry IV

Adalbert-Atto of Canossa and his wife Hildegard surrounded by arches, and their sons Rudolph, Geoffrey (Gotofred) and Tedald at their feet. Donizo's Vita Mathildis (Vatican Library, Codex Vat. Lat. 4922, fol. 20v)

The states of the Apennine Peninsula in the second half of the 11th century.

Miniature of Matilda from the frontispiece of Donizo's Vita Mathildis (Vatican Library, Codex Vat. Lat. 4922, fol. 7v.). Matilda is depicted seated. On her right, Donizo is presenting her with a copy of the Vita Mathildis, on her left is a man with a sword (possibly her man-at-arms). The script underneath reads: Mathildis lucens, precor hoc cape cara volumen (Resplendent Matilda, please accept this book, oh you dear one.)

Depiction of Pope Gregory VII at the beginning of the Vita Gregorii VII of Pauls von Bernried in the manuscript Heiligenkreuz, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 12, fol. 181v.

Matilda's wedding with Welf V (l), and she presents her property to her new husband (r). Illumination from the 14th century in a manuscript of the Nuova Chronica by Giovanni Villani. Vatican Library, Chigi LVIII 296, fol. 56r.

Anselm of Canterbury hands over his work to Matilda. Miniature in a manuscript by Anselm's Orationes (Diocese of Salzburg, around 1160). Admont, Abbey Library, Ms. 289, fol. 1v.

Matilda's signature ("Matilda, Dei gratia si quid est"), quite tremulous due to her old age. Notitia Confirmationis (Prato, June 1107), Archivio Storico Diocesano of Lucca, Diplomatico Arcivescovile, perg. ++ I29

Gospels of Matilda of Tuscany, San Benedetto Po (al Polirone), before 1099. New York, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.492, fol. 84r.

Matilda's tombstone at St. Peter's Basilica, by Bernini

The oldest proven ancestor of the House of Canossa was the nobleman Sigifred, who lived in the first third of the 10th century and came from the County of Lucca.