House of Antelminelli

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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 was Castruccio Castracani a famous Ghibellini leader. He became the Duke of Lucca after taking power from the Quartigiani family.

[edit] References

• Green, Louis (1986). Castruccio Castracani: A study on the Origins and Character of a Fourteenth-Century Italian Despotism. Oxford. 

[edit] External links

• 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)
• 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

Sources:Deutsch Wikipedia[1]