CASTRACANI, CASTRUCCIO

kästrootˈchō kästräkäˈnē, 1281–1328, duke of Lucca. His early life was spent in exile. After his return he was made captain (1316), then lord of Lucca (1320) for life. In the political wars that plagued Italy in the 14th cent. he led the Ghibellines of all Tuscany (see Guelphs and Ghibellines), waged long wars against Florence, and conquered Volterra, Pistoia, and the Lunigiana. In 1327, Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV recognized him as duke of Lucca. After quelling a rebellion in Pistoia, he died. His principality disappeared with him.

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Valperga, Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
Book by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Stuart Curran; Oxford University, 2000
Subjects: Castracani, Castruccio--1281-1328--Fiction, Condottieri--Fiction, Fiction, Guelfs And Ghibellines--History--Fiction, Italy--History--1268-1492--Fiction, Lucca (Italy)--History--Fiction
...respecting him in Moreri. 4 " Castruccio Castracani, one of the most celebrated...Macchiavelli romance: La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca 1532 by Nicolo Machiavelli...1818 in January 1819; Castruccio Castracani is the focus of Chapters...
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Machiavelli's Ethics
Book by Erica Benner; Princeton University Press, 2009
Subjects: Machiavelli, Niccolao--1469-1527
...39n81, 129, 169, 290n1, 326n3, 386n63, 489n12, 493n20 Castiglione, 224, 480 Castracani, Castruccio 77n55. See also Life of Castruccio Castracani (Machiavelli) Cato, 53, 54n133, 382, 433 34 causal explanations, 180 84, 184n47...
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The Regions of Italy: A Reference Guide to History and Culture
Book by Roy Domenico; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Italy--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
Castracani, Castruccio, 169 , 331 32 , 338 Castracani, Francesco, 332 Catalan, Alberto, 112 Catalani, Alfredo, 333 Cataldo, Saint, 27 , 29 Catania, 283 86 Catanzaro, 39 , 43 , 44 45 , 50 Cateau-Cambresis, Treaty of, 235 , 245 , 248...
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History of Political Ideas: Crisis and the Apocalypse of Man
Book by David Walsh, Eric Voegelin; University of Missouri Press, 1999
...II: 44 Cassiodorus, II: 35 , 43 Cassiopeia, V: 163 Castlereagh, Viscount, VIII: 227 Castracani, Antonio, IV: 58 Castracani, Castruccio, IV: 56 59, 87 ; V: 143 Casus reservati, IV: 240
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History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent
Book by Niccolo Machiavelli; M. Walter Dunne, 1901
Subjects: Florence (Italy)--History, Italy--Politics And Government
...of the Florentines, 81 . Defeated and slain by Castruccio, 82 . Carmignuola, Francesco, appointed cap tain...burned, 123 . Takes refuge in Santa Croce, ib. Castracani, Castruccio, succeeds Uguc clone in the government of Lucca...
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journal articles on: Castracani Castruccio  - 2 results

 
 
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Circular Definitions: Configuring Gender in Italian Renaissance Festival
Journal article by Deanna Shemek; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 48, 1995
Subjects: Italy--15th century, Painting, Italian--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Prostitutes--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Renaissance--Social policy, Sex role--History
...Castruccio a Firenze" ("in revenge for those Castruccio had instigated at Florence"). As Villani describes...also records one of these races in his Vita di Castruccio Castracani: Castruccio, "fece in dispregio de Fiorentini battere monete...
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"Do You Then Repair My Work": The Redemptive Contract in Mary Shelley's Valperga
Journal article by Sharon M. Twigg; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 46, 2007
Subjects: British writers--Criticism and interpretation, British writers--Works, Redemption--Portrayals, Salvation--Portrayals, Shelley, Mary--Criticism and interpretation, Shelley, Mary--Works, Valperga (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca," as the...Countess of Valperga, and Castruccio, the future prince of Lucca...Marguette University (1.) Castruccio Castracani dei Antelminelli became the...


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Castracani, Castruccio
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CASTRACANI, CASTRUCCIO kastroot cho kastraka ne, 1281 1328, duke of Lucca. His early life was spent in exile. After his return he was made captain...
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Lucca
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...built from the 12th to the 14th cent. Save for short periods of rule by foreign powers and by tyrants (notably, Castruccio Castracani), Lucca remained an independent republic until Napoleon I made it a principality (1805) for his brother...
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Guelphs and Ghibellines
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The terms, however, soon lost their original significance. Among the Ghibellines were Ezzelino da Romano , Castruccio Castracani , Della Scala of Verona , the Montefeltro family of Urbino, and the Visconti family of Milan (although Milan...


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