Francesco Burlamacchi

Francesco Burlamacchi , born the September 27th 1498 with Lucques and dead the February 24th 1548 with Milan, is a Politician lucquois.

Biography

According to the genealogists lucquois, the Burlamacchi family would be originating in Avano, a castle of Pisa, and would have arrived at Lucques towards 1200. Burlamacchi were signori di Torre . They are reproduced on the round of applause of 1308 of noble and powerful. They will return in Lucques under the seigniory of Castruccio Castracani.

He is the son of Michele, ambassador of Lucques to Florence and Gonfalonier on several occasions, and of Catarina Balbani.

Filippo Burlamacchi, his/her uncle, in religion FRA Pacifico was friendly of Savonarole, it adopts of it at the same time clothing and the behavior austere and joined the convent of San Romano. He writes a life of Savonarole whose manuscript is preserved at Santa Maria Novella (Florence).

Francesco is named with the Conseil of Old the in 1528. In 1533, it is named for the first time gonfalonier of Justice, posts that it occupies on several occasions.

The plot

Francesco sees the flourishing cities and republics to fall to under the influence from the pope or the emperor. It has a presentiment of the ambition of Cosme Ier of Tuscany to dominate the area. He dreams to make revive the old Tuscan republics and to release Pisa, Pistoia, Florence, Arezzo and if possible Perugia and Bologna by associating them with the republics His and with Lucques within a confederation.

He entrusts to his friend, Cesare Benedino, which advise to him to contact Leone Strozzi admiral with the service of France whose father had carried out the revolt of exiled the florentins and who wants to be avenged for Cosme Ist Pennies pretext of go to visit one of his sisters with Ferrare, Francesco leaves Lucques and goes to Venice where he meets Leone Strozzi the April 26th 1546.

Francesco, which is commissario LED' ordinanza, exposes its plan: with the authorization of the Signoria , it will join together nearly 1.600 men under the pretext of review them. Late the evening, after closings of the doors, it will direct its troops towards its villa of Santa Maria in Adhesive, where it will find other militia to go on Pisa. It is persuaded that Pisans and the commander of the fortress, Vincenzo di Poggio, will join him. After having released Pisa, it will go on Pistoia, Pescia and Florence where it will reverse Cosme. He wants to carry out the in June plan. Leone Strozzi persuades it to wait until September because it does not have the thirty thousand ecus necessary to forwarding; it also wishes to await the return of his brother Pierre Strozzi who guerroie in France and to see how the war between the emperor and the voter of Saxony evolves/moves.

Arrest and dead

This carryforward is fatal. Benedino had unfortunately spoken in Andrea Pezzini about the voyage to Venice. However Francesco had succeeded in July as gonfalonier of Justice Baldassare Montecatini prematurely deceased. For this reason, it had sliced a lawsuit between the two Angelo brothers and Andrea Pezzini, which disputed the supervision of wealthy heiress, in discredit of this last. Furious, Andrea to be avenged warns Cosme. Informed, Francesco envisages to flee in the night from August 26th to 27th. Discovered he recognizes the conspiracy and is immediately stopped.

The council of Old, fearing consequences, sends ambassadors to Cosme and the emperor. August 28th, 1547 begins the lawsuit of Francesco. Cosme Ier seeing the advantage which it could draw from the situation, requires that the prisoner be given to him, but the Seigniory refuses and is turned over towards the emperor who orders that the investigation is led to Lucques in the presence of one of its envoys, Niccolo Bellone. The October 13rd 1547, Francesco is again questioned. Subjected to the question, it does not reveal the names of its accomplices and simply admits to have had contacts with Strozzi.

Condemned for crime of lese-majesty, it is transferred in November to Milan and is imprisoned with the Castello Sforzesco. Francesco Burlamacchi is decapitated the February 14th 1548 in Milan.

The splendid villa which it made build around Lucques within Nicolao Civitati always exists under the name of villa Burlamacchi Rossi . It was seized and allotted to gift Shoeing Gonzaga duke of Amalfi which in 1556 put it at the biddings. Later, the villa will be the property of Émilien de Nieuwerkerke and will shelter its connection with the Olga princess of Cantacuzène. The September 23rd 1859, the government of the Toscane names it by decree “First martyr of the Italian Unit”. In 1863, its statue, works of U. Cambi, was set up Piazza San Michele in Lucques. A maconnic cabin of Lucques bears its name.

Its family, which had adhered to the faith Protesting E, emigrated initially in France before taking refuge with Geneva. Its Renee grand-daughter married Theodore Agrippa of Aubigné in second weddings, in 1623.

One of its descendants is the Juriste, Publiciste and writer Suisse Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui.

Another eminent member of the family is François Charles de Bourlamaque general French of the 18th century

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