Eventually, Giovanni bought an 18th-century hilltop villa overlooking Camaiore, a town near Lucca, settling there and returning to his first love: painting.

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The Holy Face of Lucca, an 8-foot-tall crucifix with a central role in Christian iconography, has survived more than 1,000 years. By Elisabetta Povoledo ROME — For centuries, in a picturesque ...

(ANSA) - Rome, November 5 - Residents from the Tuscan town of Belvedere near Castelnuovo di Garfagnana were celebrating Tuesday after Italy's top appeals court upheld their complaints about ...