Statue de Francesco Burlamacchi devant la Chiesa di San Michele in Forno (Lucca)

 

Lucques, Toscane, Italie. Statue de Francesco Burlamacchi devant Chiesa di San Michele à Forno. Oeuvre de U.Cambi.

Francesco Burlamacchi (né en 1498 à Lucques et décapité le 14 février 1548 à Milan) est un homme politique lucquois du XVIe siècle. Pressentant l’ambition de Cosme Ier de dominer la Toscane, il rêve de faire revivre les anciennes républiques de Pise, Pistoia, Florence, Arezzo, au sein d'une confédération. Son projet de conjuration ayant été éventé, il est condamné à mort et exécuté à Milan.
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Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. Statue of Francesco Burlamacchi in front of Chiesa di San Michele in Forno. Work by U.Cambi.

Francesco Burlamacchi (born in 1498 in Lucca and beheaded on 14 February 1548 in Milan) was a 16th-century politician from Lucca. Sensing Cosimo I's ambition to dominate Tuscany, he dreamed of reviving the ancient republics of Pisa, Pistoia, Florence and Arezzo within a confederation. His conspiracy project was discovered and he was sentenced to death and executed in Milan.

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