She is believed to have commissioned the renowned Ponte della Maddalena where the Via Francigena crosses the river Serchio at Borgo a Mozzano just north of Lucca.

Serge discovers that Kid is an orphan, hoping to exact revenge upon Lynx for killing her caretaker, Lucca.

Also, while there are complaints of contemporaries regarding William II's personal behaviour, he was instrumental in assisting the foundation of Bermondsey Abbey, endowing it with the manor of Bermondsey ; and it is reported that his " customary oath " was " By the Face at Lucca!

* The Holy Face of Lucca is transferred to Lucca from Luni ( traditional date ).

Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, the north-west of Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plain

It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca.

Mauro Bolognini's 1958 film Giovani mariti with Sylva Koscina is set and was filmed in Lucca.

Lucca is twinned with:

" Washington ", for instance, is thought to mean " the homestead of the family of Wassa ", while " Lucci " likely means " resident of Lucca ".

980, and the Volto Santo of Lucca ( renewed with a later figure ), which is known to have inspired Leofstan, Abbot of Bury ( d. 1065 ) to create a similar figure, perhaps covered in precious metal, on his return from a visit to Rome.

Florence, regarded as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, is Tuscany's most visited city, whereas nearby cities like Siena, Pisa, and Lucca also have rich cultural heritages.

Of these the first, compiled at Lucca after the breach with Gregory XII, is a collection of documents which had fallen into his hands during the negotiations for union: papal pronouncements, pamphlets, letters written and received by limself, and the like.

Thenceforth the " Donatio " acquires more importance and is more frequently used as evidence in the ecclesiastical and political conflicts between the papacy and the secular power: Anselm of Lucca and Cardinal Deusdedit inserted it in their collections of canons ; Gratian excluded it from his Decretum, but it was soon added to it as Palea ; the ecclesiastical writers in defence of the papacy during the conflicts of the early part of the 12th century quoted it as authoritative.

Patrilineal descent, descent from father to son, is the principle behind membership in royal houses, as it can be traced back through the generations, which means that the historically accurate royal house of monarchs of the House of Hanover was the House of Lucca ( or Obertenghi, or Este, or Welf ).

Its station is on the Maria Antonia railway, connecting Florence, Lucca and Viareggio and it is at the southern end of the Porrettana railway, the original line between Florence and Bologna.

Della Quercia's earliest work ( though this attribution is sometimes contested ) appears in the Lucca cathedral: Man of Sorrows ( Altar of the Sacrament ) and a relief on the tomb of St. Aniello.

Administratively, it is a frazione of the comune of Stazzema, in the province of Lucca.

A famous saying of the Lucchesi ( people from Lucca ) is: " those who come to Lucca without eating the Buccellato is like they never been there!

He is currently resident of Lucca, Tuscany, ( Italy ).

Some of the well renown arrangers and composers who nourished his repertoire were Mario Ortiz, Bobby Valentín, Elias Lopés, Luis “ Perico ” Ortiz and Papo Lucca.

Giacomo Puccini ( full name: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ) (; Lucca 22 December 1858Brussels 29 November 1924 ) was an Italian composer whose operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

Founded in 1996 in Lucca, the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini embraces a wide range of approaches to the study of Puccini's work.

Occasional literary references point to the novel and, naturally the classics and we know of family visits especially with Madame Pisani ( of whom he appears to have been extraordinarily fond ) " to view the paintings " He was, presumably, culturally no different to any other highly educated European gentleman. Invitations are to be found among the papers in the Royal Irish Academy-to M. Gounod's " Sappho ", first performed in Paris in 1851, Verdi's " Rigoletto " Il Trovatore ", " La Traviata and Les Vespres Siciliennes ", Schumann's " Manfred "; Donizetti's " Lucia di Lammermoor " and Berlioz ' " The Infant Christ ". Such advanced musical tastes and opportunities usually come early in life and by were presumably instilled in Hortense and Henry by the Pisani's rather than by Haliday's provincial and decidedly dour family. It is worth noting, but no more, that Giacomo Puccini, the Italian opera composer, was born in Lucca, Haliday's other home town in 1859.

Puccini was born in Lucca in Tuscany, into a family with five generations of musical history behind them, including the composer Domenico Puccini.

From 1891 onwards, Puccini spent most of his time at Torre del Lago, a small community about fifteen miles from Lucca situated between the Ligurian Sea and Lake Massaciuccoli, just south of Viareggio.

* Festival Puccini e la sua Lucca

* Concetta Assenza, La canzonetta dal 1570 al 1615 ( Lucca: LIM, 1997 ).

In 1819, Pons became the director of the new observatory at Marlia near Lucca, which he left in 1825 to teach astronomy at La Specola, in Florence.

* Johannes Ciconia, La flamma del to amor ( Lucca, f. 54v )

Aerts won the GP d ' Isbergues in 1996, Circuit Franco Belge in 2001, the Giro della Provincia di Lucca in 2001, and most notably La Flèche Wallonne in 2002 ; he did not won a professional race after that.

He is the co-founder with his father Don Enrique " Quique " Lucca Caraballo of the Puerto Rican band La Sonora Ponceña.

The modern performance history of La rondine in Europe includes the première of the third version at Teatro Regio di Torino ( 1994 ), as well as performances at La Scala ( 1994 ), Leeds Opera North ( 1994, 2001 ), Oper Bonn and Ludwigshaven State Opera House ( 1995 ), Teatro del Giglio in Lucca ( 1998 ), Teatro Filarmonico di Verona ( 2002 ), Kansallisooppera, Helsinki ( 2002, 2003, 2007 ), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London ( 2002, 2005 ), Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris ( 2005 ), Opéra de Monte-Carlo ( 2007 ), and La Fenice in Venice where it was the opening title of the 2008 season.

She married Felice Pasquale Baciocchi Levoy, a member of Corsican nobility, on 1 May 1797, created Prince Français, Duke of Lucca and Prince of Piombino and Prince of Massa-Carrara and La Garfagnana.

On the electric upright bass, Sal managed to incorporate techniques which until then were completely unheard of in Latin music, such as slides, ( Glisandos ), and utilizing the very upper ranges of the instrument, ( Check out Sal with Papo Lucca / Celia Cruz on Sonora Poncena's " La Ceiba Y La Siguaraya ").

* Elena Biggi Parodi, Catalogo tematico delle opere teatrali di Antonio Salieri, Lim, Lucca 2005, ( Gli strumenti della ricerca musicale, collana della Società Italiana di Musicologia ), p. CLVIII, 957.

He designed many buildings in Rome, which included work at the Villa Giulia complex ( in collaboration with Vignola and Vasari ), also at Lucca and Florence.

Notitia Confirmationis ( Prato, June 1107 ), Archivio Storico Diocesano of Lucca, Diplomatico Arcivescovile, perg.

The Holy Face of Lucca ( or Volto Santo ), a major relic supposedly carved by Nicodemus, arrived in 742.

The steering committee of the National Edition consisting of the scholars Andrea Coen ( Rome ), Roberto De Caro ( Bologna ), Roberto Illiano ( Lucca — President ), Leon B. Plantinga ( New Haven, CT ), David Rowland ( Milton Keynes, UK ), Luca Sala ( Paris / Poitiers, Secretary and Treasurer ), Massimiliano Sala ( Pistoia, Vice-President ), Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald ( Cambridge, UK ) and Valeria Tarsetti ( Bologna ).

Through his mother Zita of Bourbon-Parma ( a great-granddaughter of Maria Teresa of Savoy, Duchess of Lucca and Parma, who was a daughter of Maria Teresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia, who in turn was a daughter of Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d ' Este and Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Duchess and Duke of Breisgau and Modena ), Robert was a descendant of Ercole III d ' Este, and the blood of last Este dukes thus joined again with the name Austria-Este.

He led a life of restless wandering, which took him to North Africa, Egypt ( in 1109, maybe in the company of Yehuda Halevi ), the Land of Israel, Italy ( Rome in 1140-1143, Lucca, Mantua, Verona ), Southern France ( Rodez, Narbonne, Béziers ), Northern France ( Dreux ), England ( London, and Oxford in 1158 ), and back again to Narbonne in 1161, until his death on January 23 or 28, 1167, the exact location unknown: maybe at Calahorra at the border of Navarre and Aragon, or maybe in Rome or in the Holy Land.

Janin travelled ( picking up in one of his journeys a country house at Lucca in a lottery ), and wrote accounts of his travels ; he wrote numerous tales and novels, and composed many other works, including Fin d ' un monde et du neveu de Rameau ( 1861 ), in which, under the guise of a sequel to Diderot's work, he showed his familiarity with the late 18th century.

McKim was a member of the Congressional commission for the improvement of the Washington park system, the New York Art Commission, the Accademia di San Lucca ( Rome, 1899 ), the American Academy in Rome and the Architectural League.

Much later, after his adventures in England, ( until August 9, 1785 ), Miranda went to Venice, Padua, Verona, Mantua, Parma, Modena, Bologna, Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, Rome and Naples, ( from November 12, 1785 to around March 16, 1786 ).

The Tosafot quote principally Rashi ( very often under the designation " ḳonṭres " " pamphlet ", Rashi initially published his commentary in pamphlets ), many of the ancient authorities ( as Kalonymus of Lucca, Nathan b. Jehiel, and R. Hananeel ), some contemporary scholars ( as Abraham b. David of Posquières, Maimonides, Abraham ibn Ezra, and others ), and about 130 German and French Talmudists of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.