House of Antelminelli
The House of Antelminelli was a noble family from Lucca. The family was involved in the struggle between the Guelph and the Ghibellini parties in Tuscany. The leader of the family in the early 14th century was Castruccio Castracani a famous Ghibelline leader. Serving under the Ghibelline chief, Uguccione della Faggiuola, he was elected lord (as lifelong consul) of Lucca on 12 June 1316, displacing the Quartigiani family, and was appointed Duke of Lucca, Pistoia, Volterra and Luni by emperor Frederick of Austria. In the following generation the power of the family collapsed in the general success of the Guelfs. In 1596, the family was charged with high treason for allegedly conspiring with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany against the Republic of Lucca. Most of the Antelminellis were imprisoned or executed, save for Alessandro Antelminelli who fled to London and eventually became the Tuscan ambassador there under the alias "Amerigo Salvetti".
References
[edit]- Green, Louis (1986). Castruccio Castracani: A study on the Origins and Character of a Fourteenth-Century Italian Despotism. Oxford.
External links
[edit]- Note biografiche di Capitani di Guerra e di Condottieri di Ventura operanti in Italia nel 1330 - 1550: Castruccio Castracani
- Martin W. Walsh: LUCCA MARTINMAS, 1325: The Despicable Festive Humiliation of Florentine Prisoners of War by Castruccio Castracani (2004)
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Niccolò Machiavelli: Vita di Castruccio
- Costanza Moscheni: Castruccio - poema epico (1811)[permanent dead link]
- Domenico Luigi Moscheni: Notizie istoriche intorno la vita di Castruccio degli Antelminelli Castracani (1811)
- Mary Shelley: Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, prince of Lucca (1823)
- Lilla Maria Crisafulli: Letitia Elizabeth Landon's Castruccio Castrucani: Gender Through History Archived 2014-12-15 at the Wayback Machine