Francesco Burlamacchi

family was of Italian origin, exiled descendants of the Lucchese Francesco Burlamacchi. He is known to have been in England for at least 30 years (since

family (descended from the wealthy 16th-century Italian merchant Francesco Burlamacchi of Lucca executed for his Republican sentiments) who had taken refuge

military leader and Governor of Guadeloupe from 1763. His father Francesco Burlamacchi was born in Lucca, Tuscany. He began as military engineer, major-captain

with religious and political reform movements. The Gonfaloniere, Francesco Burlamacchi [it], hoped to end the dominion of Cosimo I de' Medici and the temporal

1847 - Became one of the divisions of Tuscany. 1863 - Monument to Francesco Burlamacchi [it] erected in the Piazza San Michele [it]. 1883 - Lucca–Ponte