Tenacious Tuscan city-republic that maintained independence alongside Venice and Genoa for nearly 500 years; a major medieval silk-trade centre.
Dissolved by Napoleon's decree on 23 June 1805, when it was elevated to the Principality of Lucca and Piombino under his sister Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, ending nearly five centuries of republican independence.
First scholarly history covering Lucca from antiquity through the fifteenth century; Oxford University Press.
Detailed scholarly study of Lucca's fifteenth-century political reconstruction; Clarendon Press (Oxford).
The world of the Italian city-states — broad context for this republic’s politics and culture.
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